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Martha Risto 1911 - 2001

Martha Risto of Janesville, Waseca County, MN was born on December 27, 1911, and died at age 89 years old on June 28, 2001.

Martha Risto
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Janesville, Waseca County, MN 56048
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In 1911, in the year that Martha Risto 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 1923, at the age of just 12 years old, Martha was alive when Harlem's Cotton Club opened in New York City. Owned by a bootlegger and gangster, it was a 700 seat speakeasy that catered to a "white only" clientele. But most of the entertainers were African-American and featured some of the best entertainers of the time such as Lena Horne, the Nicholas Brothers, Ethel Waters, and Cab Calloway.
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Risto, Shirley (Jun 2, 1928 - Apr 16, 2008) Risto, Veve (Nov 1, 1902 - Apr 1981) Risto, Barbara (May 21, 1923 - Mar 4, 2002) Risto, Ernest (Apr 16, 1895 - Jul 1976) Risto, Stanley (Aug 14, 1927 - Jul 1979) Risto, Warren (Jun 20, 1919 - Feb 1984) Risto, Ernest (Aug 19, 1925 - Feb 18, 2004) Risto, John (Mar 30, 1883 - Jul 1968) Risto, George (Feb 17, 1925 - Apr 30, 1997) Risto, George (Jan 24, 1961 - Jan 1980)
Risto, Louis (Mar 15, 1933 - Aug 12, 2007) Risto, Marchie (Feb 15, 1922 - Oct 1972) Risto, Anastasia (Aug 15, 1911 - Dec 22, 1996) Risto, Petra (Jun 17, 1886 - Dec 1983) Risto, Hans (Feb 11, 1915 - Jan 27, 1998) Risto, Robert (Apr 6, 1949 - Aug 27, 2003) Risto, Lazo (Feb 20, 1892 - Sep 1963) Risto, Herbert (Aug 28, 1943 - Feb 19, 2011) Risto, Verna (Oct 16, 1919 - May 1983) Risto, Bertha (Aug 14, 1910 - Sep 1979)
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