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Tony Root 1882 - 1964

Tony Root of Illinois was born on April 17, 1882, and died at age 82 years old in August 1964.
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    1882

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    April 17, 1882
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  • 08/dd
    1964

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    August 1964
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    Tony Root lived 8 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 82.
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In 1882, in the year that Tony Root was born, on January 5th, writer and lawyer Charles J. Guiteau was found guilty of the assassination of President Garfield. Guiteau was "offended" because his job applications had been rejected by Garfield's government. He was sentenced to death -although his lawyer plead insanity - and hanged five months later, on June 30th.
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In 1906, at the age of 24 years old, Tony 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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