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Benjamin Purcell 1897 - 1981

Benjamin Purcell of Golconda, Pope County, Illinois was born on July 16, 1897, and died at age 83 years old in June 1981.
Benjamin Purcell
Golconda, Pope County, Illinois 62938
July 16, 1897
June 1981
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  • 07/16
    1897

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    July 16, 1897
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  • 06/dd
    1981

    Death

    June 1981
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    Benjamin Purcell lived 10 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 83.
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In 1897, in the year that Benjamin Purcell 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 1903, he was merely 6 years old when the United States Department of Commerce and Labor was created by President Theodore Roosevelt to control the excesses of big business. Renamed the Department of Commerce 10 years later, many departments concerned with workers were transferred to the Department of Labor at that time. Another spin-off, the Bureau of Corporations, became the Federal Trade Commission.
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