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Bessie Krei 1906 - 1978

Bessie Krei of East Peoria, Tazewell County, Illinois was born on August 23, 1906, and died at age 71 years old in January 1978.
Bessie Krei
East Peoria, Tazewell County, Illinois 61611
August 23, 1906
January 1978
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  • 08/23
    1906

    Birthday

    August 23, 1906
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  • 01/dd
    1978

    Death

    January 1978
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    Unknown
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    Bessie Krei lived 1 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 71.
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In 1906, in the year that Bessie Krei was born, Finland became the first European country to give women the vote and to allow them to run for political office. (Women in Australia and New Zealand already had that right but couldn't run for office.) Although Finland belonged to the Russian Empire, there was great unrest and the Tsar wanted to broker a quick peace. As a part of the brokered peace, women got the vote.
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In 1911, at the age of just 5 years old, Bessie was alive 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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