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Lucy Sylvester 1911 - 1999

Lucy Sylvester of Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA was born on September 23, 1911, and died at age 88 years old on November 2, 1999.
Lucy Sylvester
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA 19145
September 23, 1911
November 2, 1999
Female
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  • 09/23
    1911

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    September 23, 1911
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  • 11/2
    1999

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    November 2, 1999
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    Lucy Sylvester lived 15 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 88.
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In 1911, in the year that Lucy Sylvester 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 1925, she was merely 14 years old when in July, the Scopes Trial - often called the Scopes Monkey Trial - took place, prosecuting a substitute teacher for teaching evolution in school. Tennessee had enacted a law that said it was "unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school". William Jennings Bryan headed the prosecution and Clarence Darrow headed the defense. The teacher was found guilty and fined $100. An appeal to the Supreme Court of Tennessee upheld the law but overturned the guilty verdict.
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