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America 1900-1909: Lifestyles and Social Trends

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Herbert Baxter Adams, historian whose students included Woodrow Wilson and Frederick Jackson Turner who helped organize the American Historical Association (1886), 30 July 1901.

Daniel Agnew, 93, Pennsylvania Supreme Court judge who found local dry laws constitutional, 9 March 1902.

Susan Brownell Anthony, 86, reformer and founder of the women's suffrage movement in the United States, 13 March 1906.

Caroline Astor, 78, socialite, founder of the "Four Hundred," 30 October 1908.

Harriet Hubbard Ayer, 54, first woman to make fortune in the cosmetics industry, 1903.

Frank C. Bangs, 74, humorist, lecturer, 12 June 1908. Josephine Abiah Penfield Cushman Bateham, 71, influential advocate of Sunday closing laws (blue laws), 15 March 1901.

John Bidwell, 80, former Prohibition Party presidential candidate, 4 April 1900.

Calamity Jane, 51, cowgirl, adventurer, 1 August 1903. Julia Colman, 80, Woman's Christian Temperance Union officer, influential writer and editor, 10 January 1909.

Jane "Jennie June" Cunningham Croly, 72,.....

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