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Mattie L Luhr 1906 - 2006

Mattie L Luhr of Lexington, Fayette County, KY was born on April 11, 1906, and died at age 100 years old on October 24, 2006.
Mattie L Luhr
Lexington, Fayette County, KY 40503
April 11, 1906
October 24, 2006
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  • 04/11
    1906

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    April 11, 1906
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  • 10/24
    2006

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    October 24, 2006
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    Mattie L Luhr lived 24 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 100.
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In 1906, in the year that Mattie L Luhr was born, author Upton Sinclair exposed the public-health threat of the meat-packing industry in his book The Jungle. While his intent was to show the lives of exploited lives of immigrants in Chicago and other industrialized cities, most people were horrified by how the meat that ended up on their tables was handled. There was such an outcry that legislation was passed to regulate meat packing. Sinclair said " "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach."
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In 1914, Mattie was merely 8 years old when President Woodrow Wilson signed a proclamation designating Mother's Day, the second Sunday in May, as a national holiday to honor mothers. Anna Jarvis had championed a Mother's Day for years but Congress had joked a few years earlier that then they would have to proclaim a "Mother-in-law's Day" as well. The President who championed a woman's right to vote also created a day in their honor.
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