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Richard Decoster 1888 - 1967

Richard Decoster of Defiance, Defiance County, Ohio was born on December 26, 1888, and died at age 78 years old in July 1967.
Richard Decoster
Defiance, Defiance County, Ohio 43512
December 26, 1888
July 1967
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    1888

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    December 26, 1888
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  • 07/dd
    1967

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    July 1967
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    Richard Decoster lived 3 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 78.
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In 1888, in the year that Richard Decoster 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 1901, at the age of only 13 years old, Richard was alive when shortly after beginning his second term, President McKinley was assassinated by the self proclaimed anarchist Leon Czolgosz. The last President to have served in the Civil War - he began as a private and ended the war as a brevet major - McKinley was a Republican. First elected in 1896, he was re-elected in 1900. Six months after the swearing in, McKinley was shot - and died of the gangrene that set in as a result.
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