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Edith Thorpe 1902 - 1986

Edith Thorpe of Rockford, Winnebago County, Illinois was born on July 2, 1902, and died at age 84 years old in August 1986.
Edith Thorpe
Rockford, Winnebago County, Illinois 61103
July 2, 1902
August 1986
Female
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    1902

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    July 2, 1902
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  • 08/dd
    1986

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    August 1986
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    Edith Thorpe lived 12 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 84.
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In 1902, in the year that Edith Thorpe was born, the world famous Italian tenor, Enrico Caruso, made the first gramophone recording by a popular singer. Accompanied by only a piano, his voice recordings became a big seller and did much to popularize the new-fangled gramophone. He had to sing into a metal "horn" that relayed his voice to a metal disc. And the songs had to be under 4 and a half minutes!
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In 1911, by the time she was only 9 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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