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Otis Chapin 1899 - 1978

Otis Chapin of Ionia, Ionia County, Michigan was born on April 9, 1899, and died at age 79 years old in September 1978.
Otis Chapin
Ionia, Ionia County, Michigan 48846
April 9, 1899
September 1978
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  • 04/9
    1899

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    April 9, 1899
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  • 09/dd
    1978

    Death

    September 1978
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    Otis Chapin lived 4 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 79.
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In 1899, in the year that Otis Chapin was born, the meaning of Chinese "oracle bones" was rediscovered. Farmers in China had been turning up the bones in their fields for generations but most often they were ground up and sold as medicine. The chancellor of the Imperial Academy and a friend noticed, before they ground the bones, that they had writing. The bones had been used around the second millennium BC for divination.
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In 1920, he was 21 years old when on November 2, radio station KDKA began broadcasting in Pittsburgh, PA. This was the first commercial radio broadcast in the United States. Westinghouse, a leading manufacturer of radios and the backer of the station, chose the date because of the Presidential election. People liked it because they could hear about the results of the election between Harding and Cox before the morning papers arrived. Four years later, there were 600 commercial stations broadcasting in the U.S.
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