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Shirley M Bessinger 1911 - 2007

Shirley M Bessinger of Des Moines, Polk County, IA was born on June 27, 1911, and died at age 96 years old on August 28, 2007.

Shirley M Bessinger
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Des Moines, Polk County, IA 50310
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June 27, 1911
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Shirley M Bessinger Shirley Bessinger (1911 - 2007)
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In 1911, in the year that Shirley M Bessinger was born, 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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In 1920, she was just 9 years old when on November 2, radio station KDKA began broadcasting in Pittsburgh, PA. This was the first commercial radio broadcast in the United States. Westinghouse, a leading manufacturer of radios and the backer of the station, chose the date because of the Presidential election. People liked it because they could hear about the results of the election between Harding and Cox before the morning papers arrived. Four years later, there were 600 commercial stations broadcasting in the U.S.
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Bessinger, Pauline (Jun 10, 1915 - Jul 23, 1988) Bessinger, Jean (Oct 8, 1917 - Jan 15, 1998) Bessinger, Forrest (Jun 12, 1916 - Nov 1981) Bessinger, August (Jun 30, 1902 - May 1971) Bessinger, Isabelle (Jun 25, 1905 - Jul 31, 1992) Bessinger, Amalia (Apr 29, 1875 - Jan 1967) Bessinger, Gerald (Jul 15, 1929 - Oct 20, 2004) Bessinger, Mary (Jun 4, 1909 - Apr 28, 1992) Bessinger, Matthew (Jun 1, 1881 - Jan 15, 1967) Bessinger, Dorothy (Sep 13, 1938 - May 12, 2011)
Bessinger, Genevieve (Jun 26, 1921 - Sep 1984) Bessinger, Henry (Nov 2, 1926 - Jun 18, 2007) Bessinger, William (Oct 17, 1899 - Dec 1982) Bessinger, Thomas (Feb 5, 1911 - Jul 1981) Bessinger, Eugene (Jul 18, 1922 - Jun 15, 1994) Bessinger, Dorothy (Mar 16, 1922 - Mar 1996) Bessinger, Augustus (Jul 16, 1935 - May 15, 1990) Bessinger, Theresa (Jun 8, 1907 - Jun 24, 1997) Bessinger, Alice (Sep 26, 1891 - Dec 1967) Bessinger, Joseph (Aug 28, 1928 - Jun 15, 1994)
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