Russell Craft (1890 - 1966)

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Patricia Ann Courtney and Jerry Paul Craft

Added: Jul 10, 2019

Mary (Pancurak) Zilempe & Vincent Zilempe

Added: Jan 10, 2019

Craft Family, Iowa

Added: Aug 13, 2013

Suffragettes with flag

Added: Jan 07, 2012

Craftmen Quartet

Added: Mar 30, 2008

Stolen Photo

Added: May 16, 2006

CRAFT OR UTTER??

Added: Apr 21, 2006

Mary F. Key - Sidney Redden Family

Added: Feb 17, 2005

Craft Children

Added: Apr 21, 2002

Oscar Morch, Cora Sebastian, & Cora Sheppard

Added: Mar 02, 2002

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In 1890, in the year that Russell Craft was born, on July 3rd, Idaho became the 43rd state in the United States. On July 10th, Wyoming became the 44th state.

In 1904, at the age of just 14 years old, Russell was alive when the United States acquired the Panama Canal Zone. Now an unincorporated territory of the U.S., the Canal Zone had been previously held by the French, who were constructing a canal. The U.S. took over the construction of the Panama Canal and it was finally finished in 1914, when it was opened to commercial shipping. The United States held the Canal Zone until 1979.

In 1910, by the time he was 20 years old, the Boy Scouts of America was incorporated. U.S. publisher W.D. Boyce was visiting England when he became lost in the London fog. An unknown Boy Scout helped him find his way out, declining a tip (he said that he was a Boy Scout and was doing his good deed for the day). Boyce was so impressed that he incorporated the Boy Scouts of America when he returned home. Its purpose was "to teach boys patriotism, courage, self-reliance, and kindred values."

In 1921, when he was 31 years old, in May, the Emergency Quota Act - or Emergency Immigration Act - was passed. The law restricted the number of immigrants to 357,000 per year. It also established an immigration quota in which only 3 per cent of the total population of any ethnic group already in the USA in 1910, could be admitted to America after 1921. Although the Act was supposed to be temporary, it stayed in effect until 1965.

In 1966, in the year of Russell Craft's passing, on July 1st, Medicare became available after President Johnson signed into law the Medicare Act in 1965. President Truman had received the first Medicare card since he had been the first to propose national healthcare law. insurance.