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Walter Grain 1897 - 1986

Walter Grain of Mountain Top, Luzerne County, PA was born on February 22, 1897, and died at age 89 years old in June 1986.
Walter Grain
Mountain Top, Luzerne County, PA 18707
February 22, 1897
June 1986
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Walter Grain's History: 1897 - 1986

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    1897

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    February 22, 1897
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  • 06/dd
    1986

    Death

    June 1986
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    Walter Grain lived 16 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 89.
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In 1897, in the year that Walter Grain was born, on September 21st, editor and publisher Francis P. Church responded to a letter to the editor from Virginia O'Hanlon, 8 years old. Virginia's father had told her that "If you see it in The Sun, it's so." So she wrote to the Sun, asking if there was a Santa Claus. Church responded with the now famous editorial "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus".
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In 1906, Walter was merely 9 years old when English biochemist Frederick Hopkins concluded that vitamins are essential to the human body and that a lack of vitamins caused scurvy and rickets. Scurvy and rickets were both huge problems in sailors that were at sea for extended time and the addition of vitamin C, vitamin D, and calcium in their diets helped eradicate the problem.
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