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Bessie Workman 1906 - 1977

Bessie Workman of Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan was born on June 8, 1906, and died at age 71 years old in November 1977.
Bessie Workman
Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan 49509
June 8, 1906
November 1977
Female
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Bessie Workman's History: 1906 - 1977

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  • 06/8
    1906

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    June 8, 1906
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  • 11/dd
    1977

    Death

    November 1977
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    Bessie Workman lived exactly as long as the average family member when died at the age of 71.
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In 1906, in the year that Bessie Workman was born, President Theodore Roosevelt received the Nobel Prize for Peace. The award was considered controversial at the time because many thought that he was an imperialist. But he had brokered peace between Russia and Japan a year previous and had allowed a dispute between Mexico and the U.S. to go to arbitration, resolving the issue peacefully rather than resorting to military conflict. For these two reasons, the Nobel Prize committee chose him for the Peace Prize.
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In 1911, she was just 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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