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Bess Boake 1888 - 1977

Bess Boake of Downey, Los Angeles County, California was born on August 23, 1888, and died at age 89 years old in August 1977.

Bess Boake
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Downey, Los Angeles County, California 90241
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In 1888, in the year that Bess Boake 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 1892, at the age of just 4 years old, Bess was alive when on October 5th, the Dalton Gang was shot. The Gang was attempting to rob two banks - simultaneously - in Coffeyville Kansas but word spread of the robberies and townspeople with guns greeted them when they left the banks. Four members of the gang were killed - only Emmett Dalton survived his wounds and spent 14 years in prison.
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