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Emery Benkoe 1884 - 1975

Emery Benkoe of Burton, Geauga County, Ohio was born on September 19, 1884, and died at age 91 years old in October 1975.
Emery Benkoe
Burton, Geauga County, Ohio 44021
September 19, 1884
October 1975
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    1884

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    September 19, 1884
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  • 10/dd
    1975

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    October 1975
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    Emery Benkoe lived 16 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 91.
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In 1884, in the year that Emery Benkoe was born, on May 1st, the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions - a US association - first resolved that "eight hours shall constitute a legal day's labour from and after May 1, 1886, and that we recommend to labour organisations throughout this jurisdiction that they so direct their laws as to conform to this resolution by the time named." Previously, workdays would consist of 10 to 16 hours a day - 6 days a week. It would take years before the 8 hour workday became common practice - and longer before it became a law.
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In 1899, Emery was merely 15 years old when the meaning of Chinese "oracle bones" was rediscovered. Farmers in China had been turning up the bones in their fields for generations but most often they were ground up and sold as medicine. The chancellor of the Imperial Academy and a friend noticed, before they ground the bones, that they had writing. The bones had been used around the second millennium BC for divination.
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