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Tekla Nielsen 1901 - 1984

Tekla Nielsen of Evanston, Cook County, Illinois was born on December 6, 1901, and died at age 82 years old in May 1984.
Tekla Nielsen
Evanston, Cook County, Illinois 60201
December 6, 1901
May 1984
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  • 12/6
    1901

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    December 6, 1901
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  • 05/dd
    1984

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    May 1984
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    Tekla Nielsen lived 7 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 82.
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In 1901, in the year that Tekla Nielsen was born, shortly after beginning his second term, President McKinley was assassinated by the self proclaimed anarchist Leon Czolgosz. The last President to have served in the Civil War - he began as a private and ended the war as a brevet major - McKinley was a Republican. First elected in 1896, he was re-elected in 1900. Six months after the swearing in, McKinley was shot - and died of the gangrene that set in as a result.
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In 1942, Tekla was 41 years old when on February 19th, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. This authorized the Secretary of War to "prescribe certain areas as military zones." On March 21st, he signed Public Law 503 which was approved after an hour discussion in the Senate and 30 minutes in the House. The Law provided for enforcement of his Executive Order. This cleared the way for approximately 120,000 men, women, and children of Japanese ancestry to be evicted from the West Coast and to be held in concentration camps and other confinement sites across the country. In Hawaii, a few thousand were detained. German and Italian Americans in the U.S. were also confined.
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