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Gabriel Downs 1911 - 1978

Gabriel Downs of Rensselaer, Rensselaer County, NY was born on May 7, 1911, and died at age 67 years old in December 1978.
Gabriel Downs
Rensselaer, Rensselaer County, NY 12144
May 7, 1911
December 1978
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Gabriel Downs' History: 1911 - 1978

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  • 05/7
    1911

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    May 7, 1911
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  • 12/dd
    1978

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    December 1978
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    Gabriel Downs lived 5 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 67.
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In 1911, in the year that Gabriel Downs was born, 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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In 1921, Gabriel was merely 10 years old when the silent film The Sheik, directed by George Melford and starring Rudolph Valentino and Agnes Ayres (also featuring Adolphe Menjou) debuted on October 21st. Critics weren't enthusiastic but the public loved it - in the first few weeks 125,000 people had seen the movie - and it eventually exceeded $1 million in ticket sales. And Rudolph Valentino, an Italian American, became the heartthrob of a female generation.
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