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Myra May Benness 1890 - 1922

Myra May (Benness) Smyth of Mosman, NSW Australia was born in 1890 in Kerang, Gannawarra Shire County, VIC to Albert Andrew Benness and Annie Victoria Russell. She had siblings Gracie Benness, Doris Margaret Benness, Carrie Livock Benness, Ivy Ada Benness, Ruby Russell Benness, Albert Edward Benness, and Annie Victoria Benness. Myra Smyth died at age 31 years old in 1922 in Mosman, NSW.
Myra May (Benness) Smyth
Mosman, NSW 2088, Australia
1890
Kerang, Gannawarra Shire County, VIC, 3579, Australia
1922
Mosman, NSW, 2088, Australia
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    1890
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    Kerang, Gannawarra Shire County, VIC 3579, Australia
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    1922

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    1922
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    Cause of death
    Mosman, NSW 2088, Australia
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    Myra May Benness lived 20 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 32.
    The average age of a Benness family member is 52.
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In 1890, in the year that Myra May Benness was born, on June 1st, the U.S. Census Bureau started tabulating census returns with punch cards. Herman Hollerith's "tabulating machine" used punch cards to more quickly compute census information, taking the time to get census results from 8 years in 1880 to 6 years for the 1890 census. Hollerith's company eventually became IBM.
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In 1904, when she was just 14 years old, the Russo-Japanese war began. The Russian Empire and the Japanese Empire began fighting over the territories of Manchuria and Korea. Russia wanted a warm water port on the Pacific Ocean while Japan feared growing encroachment from Russia into Asia. So the Japan fleet launched a surprise attack on the Russian Navy and a one year war began. President Roosevelt of the United States brokered peace between the two nations. It was the first time in the modern era that an Asian power showed its dominance over a European power.
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