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Leon Thornton 1902 - 1977

Leon Thornton of Voorhees, Camden County, NJ was born on June 27, 1902, and died at age 75 years old in July 1977.

Leon Thornton

Voorhees, Camden County, NJ 08043

June 27, 1902

July 1977

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In 1902, in the year that Leon Thornton was born, the world famous Italian tenor, Enrico Caruso, made the first gramophone recording by a popular singer. Accompanied by only a piano, his voice recordings became a big seller and did much to popularize the new-fangled gramophone. He had to sing into a metal "horn" that relayed his voice to a metal disc. And the songs had to be under 4 and a half minutes!

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In 1913, by the time he was only 11 years old, the Philippine–American War ended for good in June. While the official end of the war was in 1902, fighting continued for several years. An estimated 200,000 to 250,000 total Filipino civilians died and although the U.S. viewed its role as a colonial presence as one of preparing the Philippines for independence, American colonization drastically changed the character off the culture. The Catholic Church was no longer the state religion and English became the primary language of the government.

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