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Spurgeon Towery 1899 - 1975

Spurgeon Towery of Prairie du Rocher, Randolph County, Illinois was born on March 31, 1899, and died at age 76 years old in May 1975.
Spurgeon Towery
Prairie du Rocher, Randolph County, Illinois 62277
March 31, 1899
May 1975
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    1899

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    March 31, 1899
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  • 05/dd
    1975

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    May 1975
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    Spurgeon Towery lived 6 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 76.
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In 1899, in the year that Spurgeon Towery was born, on February 4th, the Philippine–American War began. The Philippines objected to the Treaty of Paris, signed in 1898, that transferred possession of the Philippines from Spain to the U.S. Filipinos began a fight for independence and fighting between U.S. forces and those of the Philippine Republic broke out. On June 2nd, the Philippines officially declared war on the United States.
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In 1906, at the age of only 7 years old, Spurgeon was alive when author Upton Sinclair exposed the public-health threat of the meat-packing industry in his book The Jungle. While his intent was to show the lives of exploited lives of immigrants in Chicago and other industrialized cities, most people were horrified by how the meat that ended up on their tables was handled. There was such an outcry that legislation was passed to regulate meat packing. Sinclair said " "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach."
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