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Ruth Peterzen 1903 - 1982

Ruth Peterzen of Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota was born on June 29, 1903, and died at age 79 years old in November 1982.
Ruth Peterzen
Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota 55411
June 29, 1903
November 1982
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Ruth Peterzen's History: 1903 - 1982

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  • 06/29
    1903

    Birthday

    June 29, 1903
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  • 11/dd
    1982

    Death

    November 1982
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    Ruth Peterzen lived 12 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 79.
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In 1903, in the year that Ruth Peterzen was born, the United States Department of Commerce and Labor was created by President Theodore Roosevelt to control the excesses of big business. Renamed the Department of Commerce 10 years later, many departments concerned with workers were transferred to the Department of Labor at that time. Another spin-off, the Bureau of Corporations, became the Federal Trade Commission.
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In 1911, Ruth was only 8 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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