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Ruby Best 1888 - 1973

Ruby Best of Belleville, Dane County, Wisconsin was born on December 4, 1888, and died at age 84 years old in October 1973.
Ruby Best
Belleville, Dane County, Wisconsin 53508
December 4, 1888
October 1973
Female
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  • 12/4
    1888

    Birthday

    December 4, 1888
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  • 10/dd
    1973

    Death

    October 1973
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    Ruby Best lived 11 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 84.
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In 1888, in the year that Ruby Best was born, on August 7th, the body of a prostitute was found in the Whitechapel section of London. Martha Tabram had been stabbed 39 times - a possible but not confirmed victim of Jack the Ripper. On August 31st, the body of Mary Ann Nichols was found - stabbed and mutilated. On September 8th, the body of Annie Chapman was found - throat slit and disemboweled. On September 30th, Elizabeth Stride, also a prostitute in Whitechapel, was found dead from a slit throat. Within an hour, another body was discovered - Catherine Eddowes'. She was far more savagely murdered and it is thought that the Ripper had more time with her. Then, on November 9th, the body of prostitute Mary Jane Kelly was found in a boarding room in Whitechapel. Considered to be the probable fifth, and last, of Jack the Ripper's victims, Kelly's was the most savage of his murders.
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In 1901, at the age of just 13 years old, Ruby was alive when John Pierpont "J. P." Morgan created U.S. Steel. J.P. Morgan was an American banker and financier who dominated U.S. business at this time. He had previously overseen the creation of General Electric, as well as International Harvester and AT&T. He has been referred to as America's greatest banker. U.S. Steel was the first billion dollar company in the world, worth $1.4 billion in 1901.
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