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Martin Postema 1898 - 1987

Martin Postema of Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan was born on June 11, 1898, and died at age 89 years old in August 1987.

Martin Postema
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Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan 49508
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In 1898, in the year that Martin Postema was born, on February 15th, the USS Maine exploded and sank in Havana harbor. The reason for the explosion has never been found, but it killed 266 men. "Remember the Maine" became a rallying cry and precipitated the United States' declaration of war on Spain two months later - the beginning of the Spanish-American War. On December 10th, the war ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris. The Treaty gave the U.S. Puerto Rico, the Philippines, Guam - for $20 million - and, temporarily, Cuba.
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In 1911, he was merely 13 years old 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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Postema, Gerrit (Jul 21, 1924 - Jul 11, 2003) Postema, Catharina (Jan 25, 1929 - Jun 21, 2001) Postema, Harry (Sep 9, 1890 - Oct 1971) Postema, Phil (Aug 6, 1919 - Aug 3, 2002) Postema, Edward (Aug 11, 1914 - Jul 1979) Postema, Henry (Nov 19, 1911 - Oct 1986) Postema, Ronald (Sep 14, 1937 - Apr 29, 2010) Postema, Samuel (Oct 6, 1879 - Nov 1974) Postema, Jeffrey (Jul 2, 1978 - Oct 2, 2002) Postema, Jeannette (Mar 19, 1908 - May 9, 1988)
Postema, J Harris (Dec 23, 1915 - Mar 29, 2000) Postema, Thomas (Mar 25, 1893 - Aug 1977) Postema, Wilford (May 7, 1926 - Nov 9, 1992) Postema, Herman (Jan 2, 1920 - Jul 1984) Postema, Samuel (Jun 4, 1915 - Jul 4, 2005) Postema, Violet (Jul 13, 1913 - May 8, 1990) Postema, Ettie (Dec 28, 1886 - Apr 1968) Postema, Jean (Jun 30, 1932 - Dec 25, 2000) Postema, Melvin (Apr 14, 1926 - Mar 26, 2005) Postema, Paula (Dec 9, 1902 - Mar 22, 2007)
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