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Winifred Wheeler 1916 - 1998

Winifred Wheeler of Chicago, Cook County, IL was born on July 1, 1916, and died at age 81 years old on January 26, 1998.
Winifred Wheeler
Chicago, Cook County, IL 60619
July 1, 1916
January 26, 1998
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  • 07/1
    1916

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    July 1, 1916
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  • 01/26
    1998

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    January 26, 1998
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    Winifred Wheeler lived 9 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 81.
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In 1916, in the year that Winifred Wheeler was born, the Battle of Verdun was fought from February through December. It was the largest and longest battle of World War I, lasting 303 days. The original estimates were 714,231 casualties - 377,231 French and 337,000 German, an average of 70,000 casualties a month. Current estimates are even larger. The Battle of the Somme was also fought from July through September of the same year. Original estimates were 485,000 British and French casualties and 630,000 German casualties.
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In 1933, at the age of 17 years old, Winifred was alive when the day after being inaugurated, the new President, Franklin Roosevelt, declared a four-day bank holiday to stop people from withdrawing their money from shaky banks (the bank run). Within 5 days of his administration, the Emergency Banking Act was passed - reorganizing banks and closing insolvent ones. In his first 100 days, he asked Congress to repeal Prohibition (which they did), signed the Tennessee Valley Authority Act, signed legislation that paid commodity farmers to leave their fields fallow, thus ending surpluses and boosting prices, signed a bill that gave workers the right to unionize and bargain collectively for higher wages and better working conditions as well as suspending some antitrust laws and establishing a federally funded Public Works Administration, and won passage of 12 other major laws that helped the economy.
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