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Ben Simmons 1898 - 1978

Ben Simmons of Bakersfield, Kern County, California was born on January 4, 1898, and died at age 80 years old in June 1978.
Ben Simmons
Bakersfield, Kern County, California 93306
January 4, 1898
June 1978
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Ben Simmons' History: 1898 - 1978

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    1978

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    June 1978
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In 1898, in the year that Ben Simmons was born, on March 24th, Robert Allison of Pennsylvania became the first person to buy an American-built car. He bought a Winton, which he had seen in an advertisement in Scientific American. The Winton, built in Ohio, was made by hand and came with a leather roof, padded seats, gas lamps, and tires made by B.F. Goodrich.
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In 1911, when he was just 13 years old, 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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