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Ben Markham 1918 - 1987

Ben Markham of Elgin, Kane County, Illinois was born on August 31, 1918, and died at age 68 years old in February 1987.

Ben Markham

Elgin, Kane County, Illinois 60120

August 31, 1918

February 1987

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August 31, 1918

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February 1987

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Ben Markham lived 5 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 68.

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In 1918, in the year that Ben Markham was born, on November 1, an elevated train on the Brooklyn line of the subway - driven by an inexperienced operator because of a strike - tried to navigate a turn at 30mph. The limit on the curve was 6 mph. The 2nd and 3rd cars of the 5 car wooden train were badly damaged and at least 93 people were killed, making it the deadliest crash in New York subway history.

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In 1943, Ben was 25 years old when on June 20th through June 22nd, the Detroit Race Riot erupted at Belle Isle Park. The rioting spread throughout the city (made worse by false rumors of attacks on blacks and whites) and resulted in the deployment of 6,000 Federal troops. 34 people were killed, (25 of them black) - mostly by white police or National Guardsmen, 433 were wounded (75 percent of them black) and an estimated $2 million of property was destroyed. The same summer, there were riots in Beaumont, Texas and Harlem, New York.

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