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Edwin Holkesvig 1898 - 1977

Edwin Holkesvig of Mayville, Traill County, North Dakota was born on June 6, 1898, and died at age 79 years old in September 1977.
Edwin Holkesvig
Mayville, Traill County, North Dakota 58257
June 6, 1898
September 1977
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    1898

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    June 6, 1898
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  • 09/dd
    1977

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    September 1977
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    Edwin Holkesvig lived 7 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 79.
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In 1898, in the year that Edwin Holkesvig was born, on February 15th, the USS Maine exploded and sank in Havana harbor. The reason for the explosion has never been found, but it killed 266 men. "Remember the Maine" became a rallying cry and precipitated the United States' declaration of war on Spain two months later - the beginning of the Spanish-American War. On December 10th, the war ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris. The Treaty gave the U.S. Puerto Rico, the Philippines, Guam - for $20 million - and, temporarily, Cuba.
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In 1911, when he was just 13 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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