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James Melvin 1890 - 1968

James Melvin of Welda, Anderson County, Kansas was born on May 17, 1890, and died at age 78 years old in December 1968.
James Melvin
Welda, Anderson County, Kansas 66091
May 17, 1890
December 1968
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James Melvin's History: 1890 - 1968

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    1890

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    May 17, 1890
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  • 12/dd
    1968

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    December 1968
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    James Melvin lived 7 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 78.
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In 1890, in the year that James Melvin was born, on December 29th, the Wounded Knee Massacre occurred in South Dakota on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation . The U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment said that they rode into the Lakota camp "trying to disarm" the inhabitants. One person, Black Coyote - who was deaf - held onto his rifle, saying that he paid a lot of money for it. Shots rang out and by the end at least 153 Lakota Sioux - some estimates say 300 - and 25 troops had died. The site of the massacre is a National Historic Landmark.
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In 1903, James was merely 13 years old when the United States Department of Commerce and Labor was created by President Theodore Roosevelt to control the excesses of big business. Renamed the Department of Commerce 10 years later, many departments concerned with workers were transferred to the Department of Labor at that time. Another spin-off, the Bureau of Corporations, became the Federal Trade Commission.
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