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William Purkiss 1887 - 1972

William Purkiss of Lansing, Eaton County, Michigan was born on November 27, 1887, and died at age 84 years old in January 1972.

William Purkiss

Lansing, Eaton County, Michigan 48917

November 27, 1887

January 1972

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William Purkiss lived 11 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 84.

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In 1887, in the year that William Purkiss was born, on January 20th, the US Senate gave the US Navy the right to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base. Pearl Harbor is on the island of Oahu, a part of the Hawaiian Islands. The Navy was given direction to maintain "a coaling and repair station" at the harbor.

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In 1897, by the time he was just 10 years old, on July 17th, the Klondike Gold Rush began when the first successful prospectors returned to Seattle after mining in the Yukon. They arrived on the ships Excelsior and Portland, bringing vast quantities of gold - over $32,000,000 in today's money - and everyone rushed to become rich in the Yukon.

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