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To: aerosappy who wrote (22984)	4/3/2005 7:35:45 PM
From: kodiak_bull	Respond to of 23153

Aero, That may be correct. However, you also have to remember that the Aero clan may not be close to the norm, the norm being a lot of dangerous manufacturing and mining jobs: steel mills, metal bashers, slaughterhouses and meatpackers, coal mining, farming)--this was the brutal norm of life for most Americans in 1880 to 1950. The data I see says 1900 life expectancies were actually 47.9 and 50.7, whereas today they are 73.6 and 79.4. efmoody.com This site has tables going back to 1800, unfortunately without data which would indicate whether, if a person survived to age 20, how long they might live past the 1850 average of 39.5 years. "America is no exception. In the early nineteenth century, the typical American woman had between seven and eight live births in her lifetime and people probably lived fewer than forty years on average." ssa.gov This information is interesting, since it says that in 1930, after a lot of medical and health & human services progress, "the majority of Americans who made it to adulthood could expect to live to 65", but then the statistics show that as a man, aged 21, 46.1% of you would be dead before age 65. And that men who lived to 65 would average 12.7 more years on the planet: eh.net I tried briefly to figure out statistics for men who made it to 20, married at average age of 24 and who died in conjunction with the 1930 tables but it was beyond me. We don't really have the statistics available here to do it without extrapolating a lot. I think when adding in widowhood, widowerhood from the mortality tables, a 46% mortality rate before 65 (when an average marriage might reach 31 years), we might find an average duration of marriage not far off the 25-30 years I assumed for 1880 (1930's raw life expectancy was 58 and 62, versus low 40s for the 19th century)--maybe 30 years was more like it (and likely terminated by death). Second marriages were common, of course, and much more likely to go the distance, I believe. As for life expectancies, even in my lifetime, when I was young if an obituary had a local business man dying at 46 or 48, it was not unusual. Death in the early to mid 50s was common, and living into one's 60s was considered a long life. 3 score years and 10 was considered rather remarkable, 80s was a minor miracle, and 90s a veritable miraacle. Kb