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Rufus Root 1879 - 1967

Rufus Root of Delavan, Faribault County, Minnesota was born on January 15, 1879, and died at age 88 years old in April 1967.

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Delavan, Faribault County, Minnesota 56023
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In 1879, in the year that Rufus Root was born, on October 22nd, Thomas Edison tested the first practical electric light bulb. Lasting 13½ hours before burning out, it used a "a carbon filament or strip coiled and connected to platina contact wires". He applied for a patent on November 4th, receiving the patent in January 1880.
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In 1931, by the time he was 52 years old, on May 1st, the Empire State Building opened in New York City. At 1,454 feet (including the roof and antenna), it was the tallest building in the world until the World Trade Center's North Tower was built in 1970. (It is now the 34th tallest.) Opening at the beginning of the Great Depression, most of the offices in the Empire State Building remained unoccupied for years and the observation deck was an equal source of revenue and kept the building profitable.
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Brinkerhoff, Persis Root, Esther (Born 1847) Root, David (Mar 26, 1889 - Aug 1969) Root Roote, Thomas (Jan 16, 1605 - Jul 7, 1694) Root, Alexander (Feb 3, 1882 - Jan 1970) Root, Edgar (May 15, 1898 - Jun 3, 1990) Root, Charles (Jun 16, 1921 - Apr 25, 2011) Root, Cynthia (Feb 13, 1919 - Jul 29, 2001) Root, Alexander (Feb 20, 1923 - Jul 17, 1988) Root, Dorothy (Nov 16, 1912 - Sep 16, 2007)
Root, Ralph (May 8, 1920 - May 27, 2002) Root, John (Aug 12, 1935 - Jan 1981) Root, Irene (Sep 11, 1903 - Jul 17, 1994) Root, Lorraine (Dec 7, 1923 - Jan 24, 2007) Root, John (Jan 23, 1937 - Dec 11, 2008) Root, Margaret (Feb 9, 1899 - Nov 20, 1988) Root, Helen (Jul 4, 1883 - Jan 1969) Root, William (Aug 12, 1914 - Jul 1975) Root, John (Sep 29, 1908 - Sep 29, 1987) Root, Waldon (Nov 8, 1926 - Jan 1985)
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