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Laura Best 1888 - 1972

Laura Best of Bethlehem, Northampton County, PA was born on July 17, 1888, and died at age 84 years old in December 1972.
Laura Best
Bethlehem, Northampton County, PA 18017
July 17, 1888
December 1972
Female
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Laura Best's History: 1888 - 1972

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  • 07/17
    1888

    Birthday

    July 17, 1888
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  • 12/dd
    1972

    Death

    December 1972
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    Laura Best lived 11 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 84.
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In 1888, in the year that Laura Best was born, on July 25th, a court stenographer from Salt Lake City - Frank Edward McGurrin - decisively beat the competition in a typing contest in Ohio. He was supposedly the only person who used touch typing and is believed to have invented the method. Touch typing is ubiquitous now - but Frank's win is what convinced everyone that the method was good!
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In 1924, Laura was 36 years old when J. Edgar Hoover, at the age of 29, was appointed the sixth director of the Bureau of Investigation by Calvin Coolidge (which later became the Federal Bureau of Investigation). The Bureau had approximately 650 employees, including 441 Special Agents. A former employee of the Justice Department, Hoover accepted his new position on the proviso that the bureau was to be completely divorced from politics and that the director report only to the attorney general.
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