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Alta Wallace 1906 - 1977

Alta Wallace of Moundsville, Marshall County, West Virginia was born on May 23, 1906, and died at age 71 years old in July 1977.
Alta Wallace
Moundsville, Marshall County, West Virginia 26041
May 23, 1906
July 1977
Female
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Alta Wallace's History: 1906 - 1977

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    1906

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    May 23, 1906
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  • 07/dd
    1977

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    July 1977
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    Alta Wallace lived 1 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 71.
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In 1906, in the year that Alta Wallace was born, author Upton Sinclair exposed the public-health threat of the meat-packing industry in his book The Jungle. While his intent was to show the lives of exploited lives of immigrants in Chicago and other industrialized cities, most people were horrified by how the meat that ended up on their tables was handled. There was such an outcry that legislation was passed to regulate meat packing. Sinclair said " "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach."
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In 1911, she was merely 5 years old when the United States Supreme Court broke up Standard Oil in May. John D. Rockefeller established Standard Oil in 1870 and it was the largest oil refinery at the time. The Supreme Court found that Standard Oil of New Jersey (one of the many iterations of Standard Oil) was guilty of "monopolizing the petroleum industry through a series of abusive and anticompetitive actions". The Court broke up the several entities that comprised Standard Oil and they eventually became competing firms.
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