BIDWELL, 114; WAS OLDEST AMERICAN.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Mary Electa Bidwell, the oldest American, has died at age 114. Bidwell, who was born May 9, 1881, when James Garfield was president and Queen Victoria ruled half the world, died Thursday at a convalescent con·va·les·cent adj. Relating to convalescence. n. A person who is recovering from an illness, an injury, or a surgical operation. convalescent 1. pertaining to or characterized by convalescence. 2. home here. Her grandson, William Bradford Bidwell, said she began to fail physically during the past two months. When Bidwell was recognized by the Guinness Book of Records as the oldest-living American in November 1995, she said she did not have the answer to her longevity, but that she never drank or smoked. She said she loved fresh fruit and hot coffee. Once asked to name the greatest achievement attained by women, she replied: ``The vote '' She said she cast her first ballot in the 1920 presidential election, voting for Warren G. Harding
Warren Gamaliel Harding (November 2 1865 – August 2 1923) was an American politician and the 29th President of the United States, from 1921 . Jeanne Calment Jeanne Louise Calment (IPA: [ʒan lwiːz kal'mɑ̃]; February 21, 1875 – August 4, 1997) reached the longest confirmed lifespan in history at 122 years and 164 days. is considered by Guinness to be the world's oldest living person. The Arles, France, resident marked her 121st birthday in February. A former schoolteacher in Watertown, Bidwell said her main loves in life were books and her family. Her husband of 69 years, Charles, died in 1975 at the age of 93. Their only child, Charles Bradford Bidwell, died in 1945. She is survived by her two grandchildren GRANDCHILDREN, domestic relations. The children of one's children. Sometimes these may claim bequests given in a will to children, though in general they can make no such claim. 6 Co. 16. and four great-grandchildren. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: Mary Electa Bidwell Among 1st women voters in 1920 |
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