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Bess Donhost 1890 - 1992

Bess Donhost of Mattoon, Coles County, IL was born on August 25, 1890, and died at age 101 years old on June 5, 1992.

Bess Donhost
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Mattoon, Coles County, IL 61938
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August 25, 1890
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In 1890, in the year that Bess Donhost was born, on June 1st, the U.S. Census Bureau started tabulating census returns with punch cards. Herman Hollerith's "tabulating machine" used punch cards to more quickly compute census information, taking the time to get census results from 8 years in 1880 to 6 years for the 1890 census. Hollerith's company eventually became IBM.
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In 1924, when she was 34 years old, in May, wealthy college students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb kidnapped and killed 14 year old Robert Franks "in the interest of science". Leopold and Loeb thought that they were intellectually superior and that they could commit the perfect crime and not be caught. They were brought in for questioning within 8 days and quickly confessed. Clarence Darrow was hired as their defense lawyer, getting them life imprisonment instead of a death sentence. Loeb was eventually killed in prison - Leopold was released after 33 years, dying of a heart attack at age 66.
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Donhost, Tilda (Aug 9, 1891 - Aug 1974) Donhost, Harry (Nov 21, 1878 - Jun 1972) Donhost, George (Oct 7, 1884 - Oct 1966) Donhost, Elthia (Dec 12, 1897 - Aug 1992) Donhost, Jerry (Jan 8, 1941 - Apr 17, 2010) Donhost, Walter (Jun 27, 1911 - Jul 1977) Donhost, Carole (Jul 15, 1919 - Mar 16, 1997) Donhost, Lewis (Mar 23, 1916 - May 27, 1996)
Donhost, Robert (Nov 2, 1912 - Jul 15, 1992) Donhost, Oscar (Apr 12, 1890 - Oct 1971) Donhost, Linda (Mar 3, 1948 - Mar 14, 2007) Donhost, Douglas (Feb 27, 1959 - Feb 3, 2008) Donhost, Mary (Aug 24, 1921 - Jan 20, 2004) Donhost, Martin (Dec 17, 1883 - Dec 1976) Donhost, Earl (Nov 3, 1905 - Sep 1984) Donhost, Irene (Nov 20, 1908 - Jan 1986)
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