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Ruth E Shafer 1921 - 2003

Ruth E Shafer of Winterset, Madison County, IA was born on March 16, 1921, and died at age 82 years old on April 22, 2003.
Ruth E Shafer
Winterset, Madison County, IA 50273
March 16, 1921
April 22, 2003
Female
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  • 03/16
    1921

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    March 16, 1921
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  • 04/22
    2003

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    April 22, 2003
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    Ruth E Shafer lived 8 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 82.
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In 1921, in the year that Ruth E Shafer was born, 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.
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In 1934, she was merely 13 years old when on July 22nd, gangster John Dillinger was killed in Chicago. His gang had robbed banks and police stations, among other charges, and he was being hunted by J. Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI - although many in the public saw him as a "Robin Hood". A madam from a brothel in which he was hiding became an informer for the FBI and, after a shootout with FBI agents, Dillinger was shot and died.
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