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Ida Wells 1886 - 1980

Ida Wells of Sumner, Lawrence County, Illinois was born on January 11, 1886, and died at age 94 years old in December 1980.
Ida Wells
Sumner, Lawrence County, Illinois 62466
January 11, 1886
December 1980
Female
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Ida Wells' History: 1886 - 1980

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    1886

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    January 11, 1886
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  • 12/dd
    1980

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    December 1980
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    Ida Wells lived 22 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 94.
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In 1886, in the year that Ida Wells was born, on June 13th, the "Great Vancouver Fire" destroyed most of Vancouver, British Columbia. A small brush fire got out of control and spread to the rest of the city. Dozens of people died and it was only after the fire that money was raised for a fire hall. The local Squamish tribe rescued people who had jumped into bodies of water to escape the conflagration.
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In 1901, when she was merely 15 years old, 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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