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Benjamin Newby 1886 - 1972

Benjamin Newby of Wallowa, Wallowa County, Oregon was born on October 8, 1886, and died at age 85 years old in September 1972.
Benjamin Newby
Wallowa, Wallowa County, Oregon 97885
October 8, 1886
September 1972
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    October 8, 1886
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    1972

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    September 1972
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    Benjamin Newby lived 14 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 85.
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In 1886, in the year that Benjamin Newby was born, on January 5th, Scottish novelist Robert Louis Stevenson's book the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was published. Immediately popular, the paperback book was sold for $1 in the U.S. - almost $25 today. Stevenson's stepson said that he wrote the first draft in under 3 days.
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In 1933, when he was 47 years old, the day after being inaugurated, the new President, Franklin Roosevelt, declared a four-day bank holiday to stop people from withdrawing their money from shaky banks (the bank run). Within 5 days of his administration, the Emergency Banking Act was passed - reorganizing banks and closing insolvent ones. In his first 100 days, he asked Congress to repeal Prohibition (which they did), signed the Tennessee Valley Authority Act, signed legislation that paid commodity farmers to leave their fields fallow, thus ending surpluses and boosting prices, signed a bill that gave workers the right to unionize and bargain collectively for higher wages and better working conditions as well as suspending some antitrust laws and establishing a federally funded Public Works Administration, and won passage of 12 other major laws that helped the economy.
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