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Jeannette Gaston 1884 - 1968

Jeannette Gaston of Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California was born on September 2, 1884, and died at age 84 years old in December 1968.
Jeannette Gaston
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California 90046
September 2, 1884
December 1968
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Jeannette Gaston's History: 1884 - 1968

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    1884

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    September 2, 1884
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  • 12/dd
    1968

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    December 1968
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    Jeannette Gaston lived 13 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 84.
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In 1884, in the year that Jeannette Gaston was born, on May 1st, the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions - a US association - first resolved that "eight hours shall constitute a legal day's labour from and after May 1, 1886, and that we recommend to labour organisations throughout this jurisdiction that they so direct their laws as to conform to this resolution by the time named." Previously, workdays would consist of 10 to 16 hours a day - 6 days a week. It would take years before the 8 hour workday became common practice - and longer before it became a law.
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In 1911, she was 27 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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