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Bessie Smith 1882 - 1967

Bessie Smith of Livingston, Polk County, TX was born on February 23, 1882, and died at age 85 years old on August 15, 1967.
Bessie Smith
Livingston, Polk County, TX 77351
February 23, 1882
August 15, 1967
Female
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  • 02/23
    1882

    Birthday

    February 23, 1882
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  • 08/15
    1967

    Death

    August 15, 1967
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    Bessie Smith lived 13 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 85.
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In 1882, in the year that Bessie Smith was born, on September 4th, the switch to the first commercial electrical power plant in the U.S. - at 255-257 Pearl Street - was flipped by Thomas Edison. It lit one square mile of lower Manhattan and was powered by coal. The "electrical age" had begun.
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In 1897, at the age of just 15 years old, Bessie was alive when in the January 22nd issue of "Engineering", the word "computer" was first used to refer to a mechanical calculation device. Previously - since the 17th century - the term computer meant "one who computes" and referred to human beings who worked with numbers.
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