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Bertha Hornbostel 1888 - 1978

Bertha Hornbostel of Stony Brook, Suffolk County, NY was born on November 10, 1888, and died at age 89 years old in March 1978.
Bertha Hornbostel
Stony Brook, Suffolk County, NY 11790
November 10, 1888
March 1978
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Bertha Hornbostel's History: 1888 - 1978

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    1888

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    November 10, 1888
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    1978

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    March 1978
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    Bertha Hornbostel lived 13 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 89.
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In 1888, in the year that Bertha Hornbostel was born, on July 25th, a court stenographer from Salt Lake City - Frank Edward McGurrin - decisively beat the competition in a typing contest in Ohio. He was supposedly the only person who used touch typing and is believed to have invented the method. Touch typing is ubiquitous now - but Frank's win is what convinced everyone that the method was good!
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In 1901, by the time she was merely 13 years old, the first Nobel Prizes were awarded. Chemist and engineer Alfred Nobel, who died in 1896, had provided in his will for prizes in physics, chemistry, and physiology or medicine, who have produced the most distinguished literary work of an idealist tendency, and who have contributed the most toward world peace. The winners in 1901 were: Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen for physics, Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff for chemistry, Emil Adolf von Behring for physiology or medicine, Sully Prudhomme for literature, and Jean Henry Dunant and Frédéric Passy for peace.
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