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Perlena Westbrook 1906 - 2000

Perlena Westbrook of Calumet City, Cook County, IL was born on May 2, 1906, and died at age 94 years old on November 26, 2000.
Perlena Westbrook
Calumet City, Cook County, IL 60409
May 2, 1906
November 26, 2000
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Perlena Westbrook's History: 1906 - 2000

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  • 05/2
    1906

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    May 2, 1906
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  • 11/26
    2000

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    November 26, 2000
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    Perlena Westbrook lived 23 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 94.
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In 1906, in the year that Perlena Westbrook 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, when this person was just 8 years old, 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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