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Selvia Haukness 1882 - 1975

Selvia Haukness of Marquette, Marquette County, Michigan was born on June 25, 1882, and died at age 92 years old in May 1975.
Selvia Haukness
Marquette, Marquette County, Michigan 49855
June 25, 1882
May 1975
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  • 06/25
    1882

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    June 25, 1882
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  • 05/dd
    1975

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    May 1975
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    Selvia Haukness lived 15 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 92.
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In 1882, in the year that Selvia Haukness was born, on September 4th, the switch to the first commercial electrical power plant in the U.S. - at 255-257 Pearl Street - was flipped by Thomas Edison. It lit one square mile of lower Manhattan and was powered by coal. The "electrical age" had begun.
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In 1933, at the age of 51 years old, Selvia was alive when the day after being inaugurated, the new President, Franklin Roosevelt, declared a four-day bank holiday to stop people from withdrawing their money from shaky banks (the bank run). Within 5 days of his administration, the Emergency Banking Act was passed - reorganizing banks and closing insolvent ones. In his first 100 days, he asked Congress to repeal Prohibition (which they did), signed the Tennessee Valley Authority Act, signed legislation that paid commodity farmers to leave their fields fallow, thus ending surpluses and boosting prices, signed a bill that gave workers the right to unionize and bargain collectively for higher wages and better working conditions as well as suspending some antitrust laws and establishing a federally funded Public Works Administration, and won passage of 12 other major laws that helped the economy.
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