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Laura Draughon 1896 - 1980

Laura Draughon of Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky was born on June 2, 1896, and died at age 84 years old in September 1980.
Laura Draughon
Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky 40215
June 2, 1896
September 1980
Female
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    1896

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    June 2, 1896
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  • 09/dd
    1980

    Death

    September 1980
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    Laura Draughon lived 13 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 84.
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In 1896, in the year that Laura Draughon was born, in April, the first study on global warming due to CO2 - carbon dioxide - in the atmosphere was published by Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius. Arrhenius concluded that human activity due to the Industrial Revolution would amplify CO2 in the atmosphere, causing a greenhouse effect. His conclusions have been extensively tested in the ensuing 100+ years and are still seen to hold true.
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In 1911, at the age of merely 15 years old, Laura was alive 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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