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Grant Ridgway 1868 - 1962

Grant Ridgway of Illinois was born on May 19, 1868, and died at age 94 years old in December 1962.
Grant Ridgway
Illinois
May 19, 1868
December 1962
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Grant Ridgway's History: 1868 - 1962

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  • 05/19
    1868

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    May 19, 1868
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  • 12/dd
    1962

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    December 1962
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    Grant Ridgway lived 20 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 94.
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In 1868, in the year that Grant Ridgway was born, on July 9th, The Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified. The Fourteenth Amendment guaranteed African Americans full citizenship and equal protection under the law. It also gave all persons in the United States due process of law. The former Confederate states hotly contested the amendment but were forced to go along so that they could regain representation in Congress
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In 1914, Grant was 46 years old when President Woodrow Wilson signed a proclamation designating Mother's Day, the second Sunday in May, as a national holiday to honor mothers. Anna Jarvis had championed a Mother's Day for years but Congress had joked a few years earlier that then they would have to proclaim a "Mother-in-law's Day" as well. The President who championed a woman's right to vote also created a day in their honor.
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