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Bess Mowen 1889 - 1976

Bess Mowen of Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee was born on September 11, 1889, and died at age 86 years old in May 1976.

Bess Mowen
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Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee 38128
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September 11, 1889
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In 1889, in the year that Bess Mowen was born, on May 31st, the South Fork Dam collapsed. Located in western Pennsylvania, the dam failed - sending more than 20 million tons of water into the towns below it. The flood killed more than 2,200 people in and around Johnstown. The newly formed Red Cross responded to the disaster.
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In 1906, she was 17 years old when author Upton Sinclair exposed the public-health threat of the meat-packing industry in his book The Jungle. While his intent was to show the lives of exploited lives of immigrants in Chicago and other industrialized cities, most people were horrified by how the meat that ended up on their tables was handled. There was such an outcry that legislation was passed to regulate meat packing. Sinclair said " "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach."
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Mowen, Clarence (Jul 18, 1905 - Dec 9, 2001) Mowen, Irene (Aug 23, 1928 - Apr 20, 2011) Mowen, Edith (Mar 5, 1915 - Nov 7, 2009) Mowen, John (Sep 29, 1895 - Oct 1958) Mowen, Florence (Sep 14, 1889 - Feb 1978) Mowen, Dorothy (Apr 11, 1918 - Sep 20, 1989) Mowen, Hugh (Apr 18, 1891 - Mar 1980) Mowen, Hugh (Jun 15, 1929 - Feb 1967) Mowen, Dennis (Aug 16, 1947 - May 1978) Mowen, Catherine (Dec 13, 1915 - Oct 3, 2004)
Mowen, Russell (Oct 16, 1888 - Jul 1972) Mowen, Ann (Apr 3, 1922 - Apr 30, 2002) Mowen, Susie (Sep 21, 1902 - Nov 1971) Mowen, Charles (Sep 23, 1970 - Dec 25, 2010) Mowen, Georgia (Jan 17, 1899 - Dec 1986) Mowen, Waldo (Apr 25, 1917 - Jul 26, 1994) Mowen, Theda (Apr 13, 1918 - May 24, 1996) Mowen, Edward (Dec 5, 1899 - Mar 1980) Mowen, Catherine (Jun 9, 1877 - Dec 1968) Mowen, Mary (Dec 18, 1931 - Feb 26, 1994)
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