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Lester Colwill 1896 - 1977

Lester Colwill of Honesdale, Wayne County, PA was born on September 12, 1896, and died at age 80 years old in March 1977.

Lester Colwill
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Honesdale, Wayne County, PA 18431
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In 1896, in the year that Lester Colwill was born, on August 17th, the first pedestrian v car fatality occurred in Great Britain. Bridget Driscoll, age 44, was walking with her family on the grounds of The Crystal Palace in London when she was hit by a car driven by Arthur James Edsall. Edsall claimed to be going 4.5 mph and Driscoll's death was ruled an "accidental death" after an inquest.
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In 1911, Lester was just 15 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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Colwill, Irene (Oct 23, 1915 - May 1978) Colwill, Dorothy (Sep 26, 1918 - May 13, 2004) Colwill, Albert (May 19, 1921 - Dec 24, 1995) Colwill, Edith (Aug 31, 1886 - Jun 1972) Colwill, Kathryn (Sep 8, 1892 - Aug 1981) Colwill, Mary (Jul 12, 1918 - Apr 18, 1993) Colwill, William (Jun 13, 1940 - Sep 27, 2001) Colwill, Richard (Sep 14, 1923 - Nov 2, 1993) Colwill, Robert (Jul 31, 1919 - Dec 1, 1990) Colwill, John (Nov 24, 1888 - Sep 1967)
Colwill, Raymond (Jul 8, 1911 - May 9, 1988) Colwill, Earle (Dec 4, 1917 - Mar 13, 1988) Colwill, Fred (Dec 2, 1897 - Mar 1985) Colwill, John (Feb 19, 1916 - Mar 1978) Colwill, Margaret (Nov 13, 1906 - Oct 1975) Colwill, Elizabeth (Aug 24, 1910 - Jul 4, 1990) Colwill, Mary (Apr 3, 1907 - Jan 19, 2005) Colwill, John (Jan 16, 1901 - Oct 1973) Colwill, Myrtle (Jul 10, 1905 - Sep 1980) Colwill, Edna (Oct 21, 1899 - May 5, 1990)
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