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Ruth A Ekelin 1905 - 2002

Ruth A Ekelin of Wisconsin Rapids, Wood County, WI was born on January 24, 1905, and died at age 97 years old on March 4, 2002.
Ruth A Ekelin
Wisconsin Rapids, Wood County, WI 54494
January 24, 1905
March 4, 2002
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  • 01/24
    1905

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    January 24, 1905
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  • 03/4
    2002

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    March 4, 2002
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    Ruth A Ekelin lived 21 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 97.
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In 1905, in the year that Ruth A Ekelin was born, the Industrial Workers of the World was founded. An international labor union founded in Chicago, it was most often referred to as the "Wobblies" and had ties to the socialist movement and the anarchist movement. At its peak, it had 150,000 members.
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In 1916, she was merely 11 years old when visiting nurse Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in the U.S. at 46 Amboy St. in Brooklyn New York. Ten days after the clinic opened, Sanger was arrested for "violating laws against giving out birth control information" which was defined as obscenity. The clinic was not handing out birth control - just information about sex and birth control methods. (The Comstock law categorized information about abortion, family planning, and contraception as “obscene”.) The clinics and organizations that Sanger established later evolved into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
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