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Ben Houser 1897 - 1986

Ben Houser of Cedar Rapids, Linn County, Iowa was born on December 28, 1897, and died at age 88 years old in September 1986.
Ben Houser
Cedar Rapids, Linn County, Iowa 52403
December 28, 1897
September 1986
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Ben Houser's History: 1897 - 1986

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  • 12/28
    1897

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    December 28, 1897
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  • 09/dd
    1986

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    September 1986
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    Ben Houser lived 15 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 88.
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In 1897, in the year that Ben Houser was born, on September 21st, editor and publisher Francis P. Church responded to a letter to the editor from Virginia O'Hanlon, 8 years old. Virginia's father had told her that "If you see it in The Sun, it's so." So she wrote to the Sun, asking if there was a Santa Claus. Church responded with the now famous editorial "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus".
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In 1914, Ben was 17 years old when President Woodrow Wilson signed a proclamation designating Mother's Day, the second Sunday in May, as a national holiday to honor mothers. Anna Jarvis had championed a Mother's Day for years but Congress had joked a few years earlier that then they would have to proclaim a "Mother-in-law's Day" as well. The President who championed a woman's right to vote also created a day in their honor.
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