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Joseph Washington 1905 - 1977

Joseph Washington of Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina was born on December 15, 1905, and died at age 71 years old in March 1977.
Joseph Washington
Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina 29202
December 15, 1905
March 1977
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  • 12/15
    1905

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    December 15, 1905
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  • 03/dd
    1977

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    March 1977
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    Joseph Washington lived 4 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 71.
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In 1905, in the year that Joseph Washington was born, the first movie theater opened in the United States in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was the first theater to show nothing but movies - silent films. Two men, John P. Harris and his brother-in-law Harry Davis, opened the Nickelodeon on Smithfield Street - charging 5 cents for admission. The first day, 450 people watched movies at the new theater - on the second day, more than 1500 people stood in line to get in.
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In 1911, Joseph was merely 6 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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