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Benton Macmillan 1897 - 1957

Benton Macmillan was born on July 21, 1897, and died at age 59 years old in January 1957. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Benton Macmillan.
Benton Macmillan
July 21, 1897
January 1957
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  • 07/21
    1897

    Birthday

    July 21, 1897
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  • 01/dd
    1957

    Death

    January 1957
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    Cause of death
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    Benton Macmillan lived 16 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 59.
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In 1897, in the year that Benton Macmillan 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 1911, he was merely 14 years old when 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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