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Katherine Nelson 1894 - 1974

Katherine Nelson of Sheffield, Bureau County, Illinois was born on September 4, 1894, and died at age 79 years old in May 1974.
Katherine Nelson
Sheffield, Bureau County, Illinois 61361
September 4, 1894
May 1974
Female
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Katherine Nelson's History: 1894 - 1974

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  • 09/4
    1894

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    September 4, 1894
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  • 05/dd
    1974

    Death

    May 1974
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    Katherine Nelson lived 6 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 79.
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In 1894, in the year that Katherine Nelson was born, large reserves of oil were discovered on the Osage Indian reservation in Oklahoma. Previously thought to be "useless" land - not even good for farming - the tribe had bought the land themselves. The discovery of oil made the Osage the "richest group of people in the world" at the time.
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In 1911, by the time she was 17 years old, 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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