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Surry Shelton 1894 - 1982

Surry Shelton of Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA was born on September 30, 1894, and died at age 87 years old in June 1982.
Surry Shelton
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA 19151
September 30, 1894
June 1982
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Surry Shelton's History: 1894 - 1982

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  • 09/30
    1894

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    September 30, 1894
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  • 06/dd
    1982

    Death

    June 1982
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    Surry Shelton lived 16 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 87.
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In 1894, in the year that Surry Shelton was born, large reserves of oil were discovered on the Osage Indian reservation in Oklahoma. Previously thought to be "useless" land - not even good for farming - the tribe had bought the land themselves. The discovery of oil made the Osage the "richest group of people in the world" at the time.
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In 1911, Surry was 17 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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