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Hester Ranton 1899 - 1972

Hester Ranton of Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA was born on April 12, 1899, and died at age 73 years old in November 1972.
Hester Ranton
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA 19140
April 12, 1899
November 1972
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  • 04/12
    1899

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    April 12, 1899
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  • 11/dd
    1972

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    November 1972
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    Hester Ranton lived 1 year longer than the average family member when died at the age of 73.
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In 1899, in the year that Hester Ranton was born, the meaning of Chinese "oracle bones" was rediscovered. Farmers in China had been turning up the bones in their fields for generations but most often they were ground up and sold as medicine. The chancellor of the Imperial Academy and a friend noticed, before they ground the bones, that they had writing. The bones had been used around the second millennium BC for divination.
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In 1913, by the time she was only 14 years old, ratified in February the 16th Amendment, establishing a Federal income tax, became law. Previously, customs duties (tariffs) and excise taxes were the primary sources of federal revenue. With the passage of the 16th Amendment, incomes of couples exceeding $4,000, as well as those of single persons earning $3,000 or more, were subject to a 1% Federal tax (that would be about $98,000 and $74,000 now). Rates rose to 7% for incomes over half a million dollars. Less than 1% of the population was subject to income tax.
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