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Bessie Knowles 1899 - 2000

Bessie Knowles of Windsor, Broome County, NY was born on May 9, 1899, and died at age 100 years old on January 26, 2000.
Bessie Knowles
Windsor, Broome County, NY 13865
May 9, 1899
January 26, 2000
Female
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  • 05/9
    1899

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    May 9, 1899
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  • 01/26
    2000

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    January 26, 2000
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    Bessie Knowles lived 27 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 100.
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In 1899, in the year that Bessie Knowles was born, on February 4th, the Philippine–American War began. The Philippines objected to the Treaty of Paris, signed in 1898, that transferred possession of the Philippines from Spain to the U.S. Filipinos began a fight for independence and fighting between U.S. forces and those of the Philippine Republic broke out. On June 2nd, the Philippines officially declared war on the United States.
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In 1913, at the age of merely 14 years old, Bessie was alive when Henry Ford installed the first moving assembly line for the mass production of an entire automobile. It had previously taken 12 hours to assemble a whole vehicle - now it took only two hours and 30 minutes! Inspired by the production lines at flour mills, breweries, canneries and industrial bakeries, along with the disassembly of animal carcasses in Chicago’s meat-packing plants, Ford created moving belts for parts and the assembly line was born.
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