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James Melvin 1911 - 1969

James Melvin of Jamaica, Queens County, New York was born on August 10, 1911, and died at age 57 years old in March 1969.

James Melvin

Jamaica, Queens County, New York 11435

August 10, 1911

March 1969

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James Melvin lived 14 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 57.

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In 1911, in the year that James Melvin was born, 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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In 1920, he was merely 9 years old when speakeasies replaced saloons as the center of social activity. After the 18th Amendment was ratified and selling alcohol became illegal, saloons closed and speakeasies took their place. Speakeasies, also called a blind pig or blind tiger, were "so called because of the practice of speaking quietly about such a place in public, or when inside it, so as not to alert the police or neighbors". There were a lot of them and they were very popular. And where saloons often prohibited women, they were encouraged at speakeasies because of the added profits.

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