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Also Known As Jim Europe
Born February 22, 1881 • Mobile • Alabama
Died May 9, 1919 or May 10, 1919 • Boston • Massachusetts
Founder Clef Club
Notable Works “All of No Man’s Land Is Ours” • “How Ya Gonna Keep ’Em Down on the Farm?”
Role In World War I

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