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Orpha Check 1906 - 1998

Orpha Check of Prairie du Chien, Crawford County, WI was born on April 27, 1906, and died at age 91 years old on March 25, 1998.
Orpha Check
Prairie du Chien, Crawford County, WI 53821
April 27, 1906
March 25, 1998
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  • 04/27
    1906

    Birthday

    April 27, 1906
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  • 03/25
    1998

    Death

    March 25, 1998
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    Orpha Check lived 17 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 91.
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In 1906, in the year that Orpha Check 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 1934, when she was 28 years old, on July 22nd, gangster John Dillinger was killed in Chicago. His gang had robbed banks and police stations, among other charges, and he was being hunted by J. Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI - although many in the public saw him as a "Robin Hood". A madam from a brothel in which he was hiding became an informer for the FBI and, after a shootout with FBI agents, Dillinger was shot and died.
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