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John Smit 1899 - 1984

John Smit of Benton Harbor, Berrien County, Michigan was born on November 20, 1899, and died at age 84 years old in January 1984.
John Smit
Benton Harbor, Berrien County, Michigan 49022
November 20, 1899
January 1984
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    November 20, 1899
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    1984

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    January 1984
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    John Smit lived 12 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 84.
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In 1899, in the year that John Smit 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 1915, he was 16 years old when The Birth of a Nation opened in February. A silent film, it was the most ambitious film to date and is considered a classic. Three hours long, it starred Lillian Gish and was directed by D. W. Griffith. The movie was based on the book The Clansman and told the story of two families (one pro-Union and one pro-Confederate) and their relationship during the Civil War and Reconstruction. The KKK was shown as "a heroic force".
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