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Elgen Poor 1901 - 1980

Elgen Poor of Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee was born on August 11, 1901, and died at age 78 years old in July 1980.
Elgen Poor
Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee 38107
August 11, 1901
July 1980
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Elgen Poor's History: 1901 - 1980

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  • 08/11
    1901

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    August 11, 1901
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  • 07/dd
    1980

    Death

    July 1980
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    Elgen Poor lived 5 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 78.
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In 1901, in the year that Elgen Poor was born, the first Nobel Prizes were awarded. Chemist and engineer Alfred Nobel, who died in 1896, had provided in his will for prizes in physics, chemistry, and physiology or medicine, who have produced the most distinguished literary work of an idealist tendency, and who have contributed the most toward world peace. The winners in 1901 were: Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen for physics, Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff for chemistry, Emil Adolf von Behring for physiology or medicine, Sully Prudhomme for literature, and Jean Henry Dunant and Frédéric Passy for peace.
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In 1916, at the age of just 15 years old, Elgen was alive when in June, the U.S. Congress authorized a plan to expand the armed forces over the next five years. Called the National Defense Act of 1916, the national law expanded the National Guard and Army (the Army added an aviation unit), created the Reserves, and gave the President expanded authority to federalize the National Guard. It also allowed the government to stockpile, in advance, materiel to be used in wartime.
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