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Walter J Canwell 1914 - 2002

Walter J Canwell of Spokane, Spokane County, WA was born on July 26, 1914, and died at age 87 years old on January 12, 2002.
Walter J Canwell
Spokane, Spokane County, WA 99204
July 26, 1914
January 12, 2002
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  • 07/26
    1914

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    July 26, 1914
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  • 01/12
    2002

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    January 12, 2002
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    Walter J Canwell lived 10 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 87.
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In 1914, in the year that Walter J Canwell was born, President Woodrow Wilson signed a proclamation designating Mother's Day, the second Sunday in May, as a national holiday to honor mothers. Anna Jarvis had championed a Mother's Day for years but Congress had joked a few years earlier that then they would have to proclaim a "Mother-in-law's Day" as well. The President who championed a woman's right to vote also created a day in their honor.
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In 1922, he was merely 8 years old when on June 22, coal miners in Herrin Illinois, were on strike (coal miners had been on strike nationally since April 1). The striking miners were outraged at the strikebreakers (scabs) that the company had brought in and laid siege to the mine. Three union workers were killed when gunfire was exchanged. The next day, union miners killed 23 strikebreakers and mine guards. No one, on either side, ever faced jail time.
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