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Gertrude Polk 1897 - 1987

Gertrude Polk of Yonkers, Westchester County, NY was born on December 25, 1897, and died at age 89 years old in July 1987.
Gertrude Polk
Yonkers, Westchester County, NY 10710
December 25, 1897
July 1987
Female
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Gertrude Polk's History: 1897 - 1987

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    December 25, 1897
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    1987

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    July 1987
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    Gertrude Polk lived 18 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 89.
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In 1897, in the year that Gertrude Polk was born, on July 17th, the Klondike Gold Rush began when the first successful prospectors returned to Seattle after mining in the Yukon. They arrived on the ships Excelsior and Portland, bringing vast quantities of gold - over $32,000,000 in today's money - and everyone rushed to become rich in the Yukon.
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In 1906, Gertrude was just 9 years old when English biochemist Frederick Hopkins concluded that vitamins are essential to the human body and that a lack of vitamins caused scurvy and rickets. Scurvy and rickets were both huge problems in sailors that were at sea for extended time and the addition of vitamin C, vitamin D, and calcium in their diets helped eradicate the problem.
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