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Robert Thornton 1888 - 1979

Robert Thornton of Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Alabama was born on September 26, 1888, and died at age 90 years old in January 1979.
Robert Thornton
Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Alabama 44128
September 26, 1888
January 1979
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    1888

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    September 26, 1888
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  • 01/dd
    1979

    Death

    January 1979
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    Robert Thornton lived 19 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 90.
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In 1888, in the year that Robert Thornton 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 1909, at the age of 21 years old, Robert was alive when William Howard Taft became the 27th President of the United States on March 4th. Previously Secretary of War, Judge on the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, Solicitor General of the U.S., and Governor of both the Philippines and Cuba, Taft was the only President who went on to become Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
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