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Wilbur Workman 1888 - 1969

Wilbur Workman of Taylorville, Christian County, Illinois was born on March 29, 1888, and died at age 81 years old in July 1969.
Wilbur Workman
Taylorville, Christian County, Illinois 62568
March 29, 1888
July 1969
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    1888

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    March 29, 1888
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  • 07/dd
    1969

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    July 1969
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    Wilbur Workman lived 10 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 81.
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In 1888, in the year that Wilbur Workman was born, on August 7th, the body of a prostitute was found in the Whitechapel section of London. Martha Tabram had been stabbed 39 times - a possible but not confirmed victim of Jack the Ripper. On August 31st, the body of Mary Ann Nichols was found - stabbed and mutilated. On September 8th, the body of Annie Chapman was found - throat slit and disemboweled. On September 30th, Elizabeth Stride, also a prostitute in Whitechapel, was found dead from a slit throat. Within an hour, another body was discovered - Catherine Eddowes'. She was far more savagely murdered and it is thought that the Ripper had more time with her. Then, on November 9th, the body of prostitute Mary Jane Kelly was found in a boarding room in Whitechapel. Considered to be the probable fifth, and last, of Jack the Ripper's victims, Kelly's was the most savage of his murders.
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In 1906, Wilbur was 18 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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