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Roscoe Sweeney 1897 - 1982

Roscoe Sweeney of Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas was born on August 27, 1897, and died at age 84 years old in March 1982.
Roscoe Sweeney
Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas 66044
August 27, 1897
March 1982
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Roscoe Sweeney's History: 1897 - 1982

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  • 08/27
    1897

    Birthday

    August 27, 1897
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  • 03/dd
    1982

    Death

    March 1982
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    Cause of death
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    Roscoe Sweeney lived 11 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 84.
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In 1897, in the year that Roscoe Sweeney was born, on September 21st, editor and publisher Francis P. Church responded to a letter to the editor from Virginia O'Hanlon, 8 years old. Virginia's father had told her that "If you see it in The Sun, it's so." So she wrote to the Sun, asking if there was a Santa Claus. Church responded with the now famous editorial "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus".
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In 1911, by the time he was merely 14 years old, 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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