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Matilda Hood 1888 - 1987

Matilda Hood of Bloomfield, Nelson County, Kentucky was born on January 6, 1888, and died at age 99 years old in May 1987.
Matilda Hood
Bloomfield, Nelson County, Kentucky 40008
January 6, 1888
May 1987
Female
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Matilda Hood's History: 1888 - 1987

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  • 01/6
    1888

    Birthday

    January 6, 1888
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  • 05/dd
    1987

    Death

    May 1987
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    Cause of death
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    Matilda Hood lived 27 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 99.
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In 1888, in the year that Matilda Hood was born, on July 25th, a court stenographer from Salt Lake City - Frank Edward McGurrin - decisively beat the competition in a typing contest in Ohio. He was supposedly the only person who used touch typing and is believed to have invented the method. Touch typing is ubiquitous now - but Frank's win is what convinced everyone that the method was good!
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In 1911, Matilda was 23 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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