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Orville Ward 1897 - 1974

Orville Ward of Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa was born on August 20, 1897, and died at age 77 years old in November 1974.
Orville Ward
Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa 50315
August 20, 1897
November 1974
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Orville Ward's History: 1897 - 1974

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    1897

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    August 20, 1897
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  • 11/dd
    1974

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    November 1974
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    Orville Ward lived 5 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 77.
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In 1897, in the year that Orville Ward was born, 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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In 1917, he was 20 years old when on July 28, between ten and fifteen thousand blacks silently walked down New York City's Fifth Avenue to protest racial discrimination and violence. Lynchings in Waco Texas and hundreds of African-Americans killed in East St. Louis Illinois had sparked the protest. Picket signs said "Mother, do lynchers go to heaven?" "Mr. President, why not make America safe for democracy?" "Thou shalt not kill." "Pray for the Lady Macbeth's of East St. Louis" and "Give us a chance to live."
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