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Ruth Swem 1916 - 2003

Ruth Swem of Grand Rapids, Kent County, MI was born on August 14, 1916, and died at age 87 years old on November 26, 2003.

Ruth Swem

Grand Rapids, Kent County, MI 49509

August 14, 1916

November 26, 2003

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1916

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August 14, 1916

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2003

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November 26, 2003

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Ruth Swem lived 11 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 87.

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In 1916, in the year that Ruth Swem was born, in June, the U.S. Congress authorized a plan to expand the armed forces over the next five years. Called the National Defense Act of 1916, the national law expanded the National Guard and Army (the Army added an aviation unit), created the Reserves, and gave the President expanded authority to federalize the National Guard. It also allowed the government to stockpile, in advance, materiel to be used in wartime.

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In 1925, by the time she was merely 9 years old, in July, the Scopes Trial - often called the Scopes Monkey Trial - took place, prosecuting a substitute teacher for teaching evolution in school. Tennessee had enacted a law that said it was "unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school". William Jennings Bryan headed the prosecution and Clarence Darrow headed the defense. The teacher was found guilty and fined $100. An appeal to the Supreme Court of Tennessee upheld the law but overturned the guilty verdict.

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