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Raymond Wagstaff 1895 - 1974

Raymond Wagstaff (1895 - 1974)
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Raymond Wagstaff
Last Known Residence
Jewett, Harrison County, Ohio 43986
Born
July 14, 1895
Death
October 1974
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Raymond Wagstaff of Jewett, Harrison County, Ohio was born on July 14, 1895, and died at age 79 years old in October 1974.

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Jewett, Harrison County, Ohio 43986
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July 14, 1895
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Raymond Wagstaff passed away at age 79 years old in October 1974. Raymond Wagstaff of Jewett, Harrison County, Ohio was born on July 14, 1895.

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Raymond Wagstaff lived 11 years longer than the average Wagstaff family member when he died at the age of 79.
The average age of a Wagstaff family member is 68.
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1895 - 1974 World Events

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In 1895, in the year that Raymond Wagstaff was born, on March 15th, in County Tipperary, Ireland, Michael Cleary killed his wife of 8 years, Bridget, and burned her body. His defense was that his "wife" was a changeling that was left in his real wife's place when she was abducted by fairies. He was nonetheless convicted and imprisoned for manslaughter. He spent 15 years in prison.

In 1907, by the time he was merely 12 years old, the showman Florenz Ziegfeld introduced his Ziegfeld Follies. Ziegfeld was inspired by the Folies Bergère of Paris and the show was a step up from the then current vaudeville shows. The top entertainers of the time played in the Follies but the stars were the Ziegfeld girls - beautiful chorus girls in elaborate costumes. For almost a quarter of a century, the Ziegfeld follies were the toast of Broadway.

In 1927, he was 32 years old when the first "talkie" (a movie with music, songs, and talking), The Jazz Singer, was released. Al Jolson starred as a cantor's son who instead of following in his father's footsteps as expected, becomes a singer of popular songs. Banished by his father, they reconcile on his father's deathbed. It was a tear-jerker and audiences went wild - especially when they heard the songs. Thus begun the demise of silent films and the rise of "talkies".

In 1942, at the age of 47 years old, Raymond was alive when on November 28th at 10:15p, a nightclub in Boston, the Cocoanut Grove, caught fire. The origins of the fire are unknown but it killed 492 people - the deadliest nightclub fire in U.S. history. Hundreds more were injured. The disaster was so shocking that it replaced World War II in the headlines and lead to reforms in safety standards and codes.

In 1974, in the year of Raymond Wagstaff's passing, on February 5th, Patty Hearst, age 19 - granddaughter of William Randolph Hearst and daughter of publisher of the San Francisco Examiner Randolph Hearst - was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army, a left wing terrorist group. She was found, alive, 19 months later.

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