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Benjamin Raterink 1899 - 1987

Benjamin Raterink of Zeeland, Ottawa County, Michigan was born on March 19, 1899, and died at age 88 years old in July 1987.
Benjamin Raterink
Zeeland, Ottawa County, Michigan 49464
March 19, 1899
July 1987
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    1899

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    March 19, 1899
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    1987

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    July 1987
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    Benjamin Raterink lived 13 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 88.
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In 1899, in the year that Benjamin Raterink was born, 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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In 1934, Benjamin was 35 years old when on June 6th, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission was formed as a response to the stock market crash of 1929 and the continuing Great Depression. Previously, the states regulated the offering and sales of stocks - called "blue sky" laws. They were largely ineffective. Roosevelt created a group (one member was Joseph Kennedy, father of the future President Kennedy) who knew Wall Street well and they defined the mission and operating mode for the SEC. The new organization had broad and stringent rules and oversight and restored public confidence in the stock market in the United States.
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