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Bess Shreve 1897 - 1967

Bess Shreve of Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio was born on January 6, 1897, and died at age 70 years old in February 1967.
Bess Shreve
Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio 45840
January 6, 1897
February 1967
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Bess Shreve's History: 1897 - 1967

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  • 01/6
    1897

    Birthday

    January 6, 1897
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  • 02/dd
    1967

    Death

    February 1967
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    Unknown
    Cause of death
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    Bess Shreve lived 3 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 70.
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In 1897, in the year that Bess Shreve 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 1905, Bess was only 8 years old when the Niagara Falls conference was held in Fort Erie, Ontario. Led by W.E.B. Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter, a group of African-American men met in opposition to racial segregation and disenfranchisement. Booker T. Washington had been calling for policies of accommodation and conciliation and these two men, along with the others who attended the conference, felt that this was accomplishing nothing. The group was the precursor to the NAACP.
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