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Bates Benson 1897 - 1987

Bates Benson of Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee was born on May 29, 1897, and died at age 90 years old in May 1987.

Bates Benson
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Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee 38111
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Bates Benson Bates Benson (1897 - 1987)
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In 1897, in the year that Bates Benson was born, on September 21st, editor and publisher Francis P. Church responded to a letter to the editor from Virginia O'Hanlon, 8 years old. Virginia's father had told her that "If you see it in The Sun, it's so." So she wrote to the Sun, asking if there was a Santa Claus. Church responded with the now famous editorial "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus".
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In 1906, this person was merely 9 years old when 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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Benson, Oscar (Born Aug 30, 1892) Benson-Uphold, Dora (Born Mar 23, 1881) Benson, Catherine (Jan 31, 1914 - Feb 1979) Benson, Joseph (Born Jul 14, 1949) Benson, Jemima (Born Mar 29, 1833) Benson, Warren (Born c. May 1867) Benson, Myrtelle (Born Dec 27, 1874) Benson, John (c. 1869 - c. 1958) Benson, Edlow (Feb 24, 1886 - Jan 1970) Benson, Isabelle (Dec 5, 1917 - Mar 14, 2007)
Benson, William (Nov 9, 1894 - Jan 1968) Benson, Edward (Mar 29, 1914 - Aug 1968) Benson, Helen (Jul 7, 1914 - Jan 7, 1995) Benson, Rose (May 12, 1918 - Apr 6, 2008) Benson, Louis (Jun 15, 1898 - Apr 1970) Benson, Grant (Mar 7, 1900 - Feb 1982) Benson, William (Aug 27, 1915 - Aug 13, 1994) Benson, James (Oct 31, 1922 - Apr 3, 2003) Benson, Raymond (Jun 29, 1923 - Dec 1978) Benson, Jacquelyn (Oct 22, 1923 - Feb 22, 2011)
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