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Rudolph Potratz 1897 - 1985

Rudolph Potratz of Oelwein, Fayette County, Iowa was born on February 7, 1897, and died at age 88 years old in October 1985.
Rudolph Potratz
Oelwein, Fayette County, Iowa 50662
February 7, 1897
October 1985
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Rudolph Potratz's History: 1897 - 1985

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  • 02/7
    1897

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    February 7, 1897
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  • 10/dd
    1985

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    October 1985
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    Rudolph Potratz lived 13 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 88.
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In 1897, in the year that Rudolph Potratz was born, on September 21st, editor and publisher Francis P. Church responded to a letter to the editor from Virginia O'Hanlon, 8 years old. Virginia's father had told her that "If you see it in The Sun, it's so." So she wrote to the Sun, asking if there was a Santa Claus. Church responded with the now famous editorial "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus".
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In 1905, he was only 8 years old when the Niagara Falls conference was held in Fort Erie, Ontario. Led by W.E.B. Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter, a group of African-American men met in opposition to racial segregation and disenfranchisement. Booker T. Washington had been calling for policies of accommodation and conciliation and these two men, along with the others who attended the conference, felt that this was accomplishing nothing. The group was the precursor to the NAACP.
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