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Edith Gester 1897 - 1986

Edith Gester of Portland, Cumberland County, ME was born on May 24, 1897, and died at age 88 years old in April 1986.

Edith Gester
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Portland, Cumberland County, ME 04101
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May 24, 1897
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Edith Gester Edith Gester (1897 - 1986)
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In 1897, in the year that Edith Gester 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 1925, at the age of 28 years old, Edith was alive when in July, the Scopes Trial - often called the Scopes Monkey Trial - took place, prosecuting a substitute teacher for teaching evolution in school. Tennessee had enacted a law that said it was "unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school". William Jennings Bryan headed the prosecution and Clarence Darrow headed the defense. The teacher was found guilty and fined $100. An appeal to the Supreme Court of Tennessee upheld the law but overturned the guilty verdict.
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