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Chester Merten 1909 - 1979

Chester Merten of Bellville, Austin County, Texas was born on August 5, 1909, and died at age 69 years old in March 1979.

Chester Merten

Bellville, Austin County, Texas 77418

August 5, 1909

March 1979

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Chester Merten lived 7 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 69.

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In 1909, in the year that Chester Merten was born, the New York Times published the first movie review. It was a report on D.W. Griffith's movie "Pippa Passes" also called "The Song of Conscience", a silent film. The review said that this work was moving away from "lurid material that attracted the wrath of censors and concerned citizens and toward more respectable ends. The movie was the story of a young female factory worker, on her day off, wandering and singing - thus changing the hearts of those around her towards good.

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In 1921, Chester was merely 12 years old when hugely popular Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, silent film star, was arrested for rape and manslaughter after an actress died following a party at his house. He was acquitted after three trials and the jury wrote a formal letter apologizing for the charges, but his career never recovered. His films were at first banned - the ban was lifted after a year - and he was mostly ostracized by the community. He died at 46..

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