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Rena B Brickson 1905 - 1995

Rena B Brickson of Chicago, Cook County, IL was born on June 19, 1905, and died at age 90 years old in July 1995.
Rena B Brickson
Chicago, Cook County, IL 60613
June 19, 1905
July 1995
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    1905

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    June 19, 1905
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  • 07/dd
    1995

    Death

    July 1995
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    Rena B Brickson lived 12 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 90.
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In 1905, in the year that Rena B Brickson was born, the first movie theater opened in the United States in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was the first theater to show nothing but movies - silent films. Two men, John P. Harris and his brother-in-law Harry Davis, opened the Nickelodeon on Smithfield Street - charging 5 cents for admission. The first day, 450 people watched movies at the new theater - on the second day, more than 1500 people stood in line to get in.
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In 1933, at the age of 28 years old, Rena was alive when Frances Perkins became the first woman to hold a cabinet-level position, appointed by President Roosevelt to serve as Secretary of Labor. She told him that her priorities would be a 40-hour work week, a minimum wage, unemployment compensation, worker’s compensation, abolition of child labor, direct federal aid to the states for unemployment relief, Social Security, a revitalized federal employment service, and universal health insurance. President Roosevelt approved of all of them and most them were implemented during his terms as President. She served until his death in 1945.
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