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Orpha Shank 1897 - 1987

Orpha Shank of Woodbine, Dickinson County, Kansas was born on December 10, 1897, and died at age 89 years old in April 1987.
Orpha Shank
Woodbine, Dickinson County, Kansas 67492
December 10, 1897
April 1987
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Orpha Shank's History: 1897 - 1987

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  • 12/10
    1897

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    December 10, 1897
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  • 04/dd
    1987

    Death

    April 1987
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    Orpha Shank lived 15 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 89.
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In 1897, in the year that Orpha Shank was born, in the January 22nd issue of "Engineering", the word "computer" was first used to refer to a mechanical calculation device. Previously - since the 17th century - the term computer meant "one who computes" and referred to human beings who worked with numbers.
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In 1905, Orpha was merely 8 years old when the Niagara Falls conference was held in Fort Erie, Ontario. Led by W.E.B. Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter, a group of African-American men met in opposition to racial segregation and disenfranchisement. Booker T. Washington had been calling for policies of accommodation and conciliation and these two men, along with the others who attended the conference, felt that this was accomplishing nothing. The group was the precursor to the NAACP.
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