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Nellie Turpen 1879 - 1972

Nellie Turpen of Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie County, Iowa was born on January 21, 1879, and died at age 93 years old in October 1972.
Nellie Turpen
Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie County, Iowa 51501
January 21, 1879
October 1972
Female
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    1879

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    January 21, 1879
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    1972

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    October 1972
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    Nellie Turpen lived 21 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 93.
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In 1879, in the year that Nellie Turpen was born, on October 22nd, Thomas Edison tested the first practical electric light bulb. Lasting 13½ hours before burning out, it used a "a carbon filament or strip coiled and connected to platina contact wires". He applied for a patent on November 4th, receiving the patent in January 1880.
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In 1897, at the age of 18 years old, Nellie was alive when on July 17th, the Klondike Gold Rush began when the first successful prospectors returned to Seattle after mining in the Yukon. They arrived on the ships Excelsior and Portland, bringing vast quantities of gold - over $32,000,000 in today's money - and everyone rushed to become rich in the Yukon.
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