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Augustus Townsend 1888 - 1968

Augustus Townsend of Columbus, Burlington County, NJ was born on January 11, 1888, and died at age 80 years old in August 1968.
Augustus Townsend
Columbus, Burlington County, NJ 08022
January 11, 1888
August 1968
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    1888

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    January 11, 1888
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    1968

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    August 1968
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    Augustus Townsend lived 8 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 80.
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In 1888, in the year that Augustus Townsend was born, on July 25th, a court stenographer from Salt Lake City - Frank Edward McGurrin - decisively beat the competition in a typing contest in Ohio. He was supposedly the only person who used touch typing and is believed to have invented the method. Touch typing is ubiquitous now - but Frank's win is what convinced everyone that the method was good!
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In 1899, at the age of only 11 years old, Augustus was alive when the meaning of Chinese "oracle bones" was rediscovered. Farmers in China had been turning up the bones in their fields for generations but most often they were ground up and sold as medicine. The chancellor of the Imperial Academy and a friend noticed, before they ground the bones, that they had writing. The bones had been used around the second millennium BC for divination.
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