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Lena Gessman 1890 - 1980

Lena Gessman was born on October 15, 1890, and died at age 90 years old in December 1980. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Lena Gessman.
Lena Gessman
October 15, 1890
December 1980
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Lena Gessman's History: 1890 - 1980

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  • 10/15
    1890

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    October 15, 1890
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  • 12/dd
    1980

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    December 1980
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    Lena Gessman lived 20 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 90.
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In 1890, in the year that Lena Gessman was born, on December 29th, the Wounded Knee Massacre occurred in South Dakota on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation . The U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment said that they rode into the Lakota camp "trying to disarm" the inhabitants. One person, Black Coyote - who was deaf - held onto his rifle, saying that he paid a lot of money for it. Shots rang out and by the end at least 153 Lakota Sioux - some estimates say 300 - and 25 troops had died. The site of the massacre is a National Historic Landmark.
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In 1916, Lena was 26 years old when suffragette Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman elected to the House of Representatives as a Representative at large from Montana. She was the first woman to hold an elected Federal office. Holding the office for two years, she ran again in 1940 and served another two year term. Montana had granted women unrestricted voting rights in 1914, 6 years before women got the vote nationally.
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