Ernest Osborne Nette (1904 - 1995)

Ernest's immediate relatives including parents, siblings, partnerships and children in the Nette family tree.

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Ernest's Parents

Ernest Charles Nette

Clara Jane Nette ( Osborne

Ena Florence Tomkins ( Nette Ernest Osborne Nette

Neville Clarence Nette

Parents:

Ernest Charles Nette

1874 - Aug 23, 1953

Clara Jane Nette ( Osborne

1874 - Mar 28, 1942

Siblings:

Neville Clarence Nette

Unknown - Unknown

Ena Florence Tomkins ( Nette

1907 - Unknown

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Ernest Osborne Nette & Joan Mary Nette ( Cooper

Ernest Osborne Nette

Joan Mary Nette ( Cooper

Spouse:

Joan Mary Nette ( Cooper

Unknown - 2001

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In 1904, in the year that Ernest Osborne Nette was born, the Russo-Japanese war began. The Russian Empire and the Japanese Empire began fighting over the territories of Manchuria and Korea. Russia wanted a warm water port on the Pacific Ocean while Japan feared growing encroachment from Russia into Asia. So the Japan fleet launched a surprise attack on the Russian Navy and a one year war began. President Roosevelt of the United States brokered peace between the two nations. It was the first time in the modern era that an Asian power showed its dominance over a European power.

In 1917, when he was merely 13 years old, Dutch exotic dancer Mata Hari was convicted and executed as a German spy. Since Mata Hari, born Margaretha Geertruida "Margreet" MacLeod, was a citizen of the Netherlands (which remained neutral in World War 1), she could travel freely in Europe. Her travels (and her romantic entanglements) raised suspicion and she was arrested by the French and found guilty. There is still controversy about her guilt although her name has become synonymous with a seductive female spy.

In 1922, at the age of 18 years old, Ernest was alive when the Reparations Commission assessed German liability for World War 1 at 132 billion gold marks (over $32 billion U.S. dollars at the time). This led to hyperinflation in Germany and created the political and social atmosphere in which Hitler was able to rise to power.

In 1934, he was 30 years old when on November 11th 1933, an extremely strong dust storm hit South Dakota, stripping topsoil. Other strong dust storms had occurred during 1933. Severe droughts continued to hit the Great Plains and the dust storms devastated agricultural production as well as people's' lives for several years. The Roosevelt administration and scientists eventually determined that farming practices had caused the conditions that led to the dust storms and the changes they implemented in farming stopped the Dust Bowl.

In 1995, in the year of Ernest Osborne Nette's passing, on September 3rd, eBay was founded in San Jose California. Beginning as simply a place for Pierre Omidyar's girlfriend (now wife) to share her Pez passion and collection online, the site has become a multibillion-dollar business and operates in 30 countries.