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William Griffin 1888 - 1977

William Griffin of Norfolk, Norfolk City County, Virginia was born on March 9, 1888, and died at age 89 years old in May 1977.
William Griffin
Norfolk, Norfolk City County, Virginia 23504
March 9, 1888
May 1977
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    1888

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    March 9, 1888
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  • 05/dd
    1977

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    May 1977
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    William Griffin lived 18 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 89.
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In 1888, in the year that William Griffin 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 1918, when he was 30 years old, following European countries, Daylight Saving Time went into effect in the United States in March. It was an effort to conserve fuel needed to produce electric power. This was a war effort and proved unpopular so in most areas of the United States, Daylight Saving Time ended after World War I. It returned during World War II.
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