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Clara Balke 1897 - 1981

Clara Balke of Forest Grove, Washington County, Oregon was born on March 10, 1897, and died at age 84 years old in July 1981.
Clara Balke
Forest Grove, Washington County, Oregon 97116
March 10, 1897
July 1981
Female
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  • 03/10
    1897

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    March 10, 1897
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  • 07/dd
    1981

    Death

    July 1981
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    Unknown
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    Clara Balke lived 8 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 84.
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In 1897, in the year that Clara Balke was born, on July 17th, the Klondike Gold Rush began when the first successful prospectors returned to Seattle after mining in the Yukon. They arrived on the ships Excelsior and Portland, bringing vast quantities of gold - over $32,000,000 in today's money - and everyone rushed to become rich in the Yukon.
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In 1911, when she was merely 14 years old, 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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