To add to Henry's online memorials, please visit our website at on the Internet.Refresh this page to see various historical events that occurred during Ida's lifetime. In 1888, in the year that Ida Loopman was born, on July 25th, a court stenographer from Salt Lake City - Frank Edward McGurrin - decisively beat the competition in a typing contest in Ohio. He was supposedly the only person who used touch typing and is believed to have invented the method. Touch typing is ubiquitous now - but Frank's win is what convinced everyone that the method was good! Ida Loopman was born on February 15, 1888. She died in June 1974 at 86 years of age. We know that Ida Loopman had been residing in Mohawk, Herkimer County, New York 13407. In 1899, at the age of just 11 years old, Ida was alive when on February 4th, the Philippine–American War began. The Philippines objected to the Treaty of Paris, signed in 1898, that transferred possession of the Philippines from Spain to the U.S. Filipinos began a fight for independence and fighting between U.S. forces and those of the Philippine Republic broke out. On June 2nd, the Philippines officially declared war on the United States. In 1903, Ida was just 15 years old when the United States Department of Commerce and Labor was created by President Theodore Roosevelt to control the excesses of big business.

Renamed the Department of Commerce 10 years later, many departments concerned with workers were transferred to the Department of Labor at that time. Another spin-off, the Bureau of Corporations, became the Federal Trade Commission. In 1924, Ida was 36 years old when in May, wealthy college students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb kidnapped and killed 14 year old Robert Franks 'in the interest of science'.

Leopold and Loeb thought that they were intellectually superior and that they could commit the perfect crime and not be caught. They were brought in for questioning within 8 days and quickly confessed. Clarence Darrow was hired as their defense lawyer, getting them life imprisonment instead of a death sentence. Loeb was eventually killed in prison - Leopold was released after 33 years, dying of a heart attack at age 66. In 1974, in the year of Ida Loopman's passing, on August 9th, Gerald R. Ford became the 38th President of the United States.

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