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John H Olthoff 1914 - 2009

John H Olthoff of Iowa City, Johnson County, IA was born on August 23, 1914, and died at age 95 years old on October 1, 2009.
John H Olthoff
Iowa City, Johnson County, IA 52246
August 23, 1914
October 1, 2009
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  • 08/23
    1914

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    August 23, 1914
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  • 10/1
    2009

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    October 1, 2009
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    John H Olthoff lived 19 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 95.
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In 1914, in the year that John H Olthoff was born, in June, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated by a Yugoslavian national. Austria-Hungary delivered an ultimatum to Serbia. Other major powers took sides - and World War I began: Austria declared war on Serbia; Germany on Russia and France; Britain on Germany . . . and on it went until most of the world was embroiled in the war.
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In 1925, he was merely 11 years old 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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