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Benny Wonsley 1911 - 1984

Benny Wonsley of East Saint Louis, Saint Clair County, Illinois was born on December 25, 1911, and died at age 72 years old in May 1984.

Benny Wonsley
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East Saint Louis, Saint Clair County, Illinois 62205
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December 25, 1911
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In 1911, in the year that Benny Wonsley 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 1927, at the age of 16 years old, Benny was alive when aviator and media darling Charles Lindbergh, age 25, made the first successful solo TransAtlantic flight. "Lucky Lindy" took off from Long Island in New York and flew to Paris, covering  3,600 statute miles and flying for 33 1⁄2-hours. His plane "The Spirit of St. Louis" was a fabric-covered, single-seat, single-engine "Ryan NYP" high-wing monoplane designed by both Lindbergh and the manufacturer's chief engineer.
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