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Wilbur Merritt 1914 - 1985

Wilbur Merritt of Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio was born on October 19, 1914, and died at age 70 years old in July 1985.
Wilbur Merritt
Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio 43219
October 19, 1914
July 1985
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Wilbur Merritt's History: 1914 - 1985

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    1914

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    October 19, 1914
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  • 07/dd
    1985

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    July 1985
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    Wilbur Merritt lived 2 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 70.
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In 1914, in the year that Wilbur Merritt was born, in August, the world's first red and green traffic lights were installed at the corner of East 105th Street and Euclid Avenue in Cleveland Ohio. The electric traffic light had been invented by a policeman in Salt Lake City Utah in 1912.
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In 1942, Wilbur was 28 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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