102 - Elsie E Degeberg - SeaTac, WA
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member NW_history_buff
N 47° 27.132 W 122° 17.814
10T E 553000 N 5255657
One of many centenarians interred within Washington Memorial Park.
Waymark Code: WMYTM5
Location: Washington, United States
Date Posted: 07/23/2018
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member elyob
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I wasn't able to locate any information for Elsie online other than her birth/death dates: Born 21 Aug 1893; Died 8 Feb 1996. The following historic events-of-interest occurred during Elsie's birth year in 1893:

Jan 1 - 1st US college extension courses for credit, University of Chicago

Jan 2 - 1st US commemoratives & 1st US stamp to picture a woman issued (Queen Isabella, patron of Columbus)

Feb 1 - Thomas Edison completes worlds 1st movie studio at West Orange, New Jersey

Mar 3 - US Congress authorizes 1st federal road agency, in Department of Agriculture

Mar 4 - Grover Cleveland (D) inaugurated as 24th US President (2nd term)

May 1 - World Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago

May 4 - Cowboy Bill Pickett invents bulldogging, the skill of grabbing cattle by the horns and wrestling them to the ground

May 5 - Panic of 1893 causes a large crash on the NY Stock Exchange

Jun 20 - Lizzie Borden acquitted of the 1892 axe murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts

Jun 21 - 1st Ferris wheel premieres (Chicago's Columbian Exposition)

Jul 22 - Katharine Lee Bates writes "America the Beautiful" in Colorado

Sep 4 - English author Beatrix Potter first writes the story of Peter Rabbit for a 5 year old boy

Oct 6 - Nabisco Foods invents Cream of Wheat

Nov 28 - Women vote in a national election for the first time, in the New Zealand general election

Dec 24 - Henry Ford completes his first useful petrol / gasoline fuelled engine

Location of Headstone: Washington Memorial Park

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