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Ben B Block 1911 - 2009

Ben B Block of Chicago, Cook County, IL was born on March 28, 1911, and died at age 97 years old on January 19, 2009.

Ben B Block
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Chicago, Cook County, IL 60602
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In 1911, in the year that Ben B Block 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 1923, by the time he was only 12 years old, Harlem's Cotton Club opened in New York City. Owned by a bootlegger and gangster, it was a 700 seat speakeasy that catered to a "white only" clientele. But most of the entertainers were African-American and featured some of the best entertainers of the time such as Lena Horne, the Nicholas Brothers, Ethel Waters, and Cab Calloway.
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Block, Dorothy (Mar 10, 1920 - Jul 1985) Block, Lila (Aug 23, 1878 - Feb 1979) Block, Pearl (Dec 28, 1889 - Dec 1984) Block, Charlotte (Sep 21, 1923 - Apr 12, 2004) Block, Nora (Jan 21, 1911 - Aug 31, 2009) Block, Adeline (Jul 21, 1915 - Jul 1, 1999) Block, John (Nov 6, 1883 - Feb 1966) Block, Paula (Jul 14, 1949 - Sep 1984) Block, Eli (Dec 19, 1888 - May 1980) Block, Morris (Jul 14, 1906 - Oct 29, 1995)
Block, Heather (Apr 16, 1977 - Dec 3, 2009) Block, Oscar (Nov 6, 1890 - Jul 1977) Block, Frederick (Aug 8, 1927 - Apr 24, 2005) Block, Grace (Jul 18, 1896 - Aug 1985) Block, Estelle (Dec 25, 1913 - Mar 29, 2007) Block, Herman (Aug 16, 1911 - Feb 3, 2000) Block, William (May 31, 1901 - Aug 11, 1993) Block, Sarah (Oct 22, 1898 - Apr 1983) Block, Irving (Jan 5, 1909 - Jan 1987) Block, Bertha (Feb 16, 1891 - Sep 1979)
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