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Ben Skadsen 1897 - 1976

Ben Skadsen of Sioux Falls, Minnehaha County, South Dakota was born on December 10, 1897, and died at age 78 years old in November 1976.
Ben Skadsen
Sioux Falls, Minnehaha County, South Dakota 57104
December 10, 1897
November 1976
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  • 12/10
    1897

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    December 10, 1897
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  • 11/dd
    1976

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    November 1976
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    Ben Skadsen lived 13 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 78.
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In 1897, in the year that Ben Skadsen was born, on September 21st, editor and publisher Francis P. Church responded to a letter to the editor from Virginia O'Hanlon, 8 years old. Virginia's father had told her that "If you see it in The Sun, it's so." So she wrote to the Sun, asking if there was a Santa Claus. Church responded with the now famous editorial "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus".
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In 1934, when he was 37 years old, on November 11th 1933, an extremely strong dust storm hit South Dakota, stripping topsoil. Other strong dust storms had occurred during 1933. Severe droughts continued to hit the Great Plains and the dust storms devastated agricultural production as well as people's' lives for several years. The Roosevelt administration and scientists eventually determined that farming practices had caused the conditions that led to the dust storms and the changes they implemented in farming stopped the Dust Bowl.
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