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Gertrude Brown 1898 - 1976

Gertrude Brown of Des Plaines, Cook County, Illinois was born on October 16, 1898, and died at age 78 years old in November 1976.
Gertrude Brown
Des Plaines, Cook County, Illinois 60016
October 16, 1898
November 1976
Female
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Gertrude Brown's History: 1898 - 1976

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    1898

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    October 16, 1898
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  • 11/dd
    1976

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    November 1976
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    Gertrude Brown lived 7 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 78.
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In 1898, in the year that Gertrude Brown was born, magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company controlled 84% of the oil and pipelines in the United States. Rockefeller grew Standard Oil through the merger of several other small oil companies throughout the U.S., creating a monopoly.
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In 1911, Gertrude was just 13 years old when 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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