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Bessye Duncan 1901 - 1987

Bessye Duncan of Atlantic City, Atlantic County, NJ was born on July 31, 1901, and died at age 86 years old in September 1987.
Bessye Duncan
Atlantic City, Atlantic County, NJ 08401
July 31, 1901
September 1987
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  • 07/31
    1901

    Birthday

    July 31, 1901
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  • 09/dd
    1987

    Death

    September 1987
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    Bessye Duncan lived 14 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 86.
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In 1901, in the year that Bessye Duncan was born, John Pierpont "J. P." Morgan created U.S. Steel. J.P. Morgan was an American banker and financier who dominated U.S. business at this time. He had previously overseen the creation of General Electric, as well as International Harvester and AT&T. He has been referred to as America's greatest banker. U.S. Steel was the first billion dollar company in the world, worth $1.4 billion in 1901.
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In 1911, when this person was only 10 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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