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Ruth Gethin 1897 - 1985

Ruth Gethin of Miami Beach, Miami-Dade County, FL was born on October 13, 1897, and died at age 87 years old in April 1985.

Ruth Gethin

Miami Beach, Miami-Dade County, FL 33139

October 13, 1897

April 1985

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In 1897, in the year that Ruth Gethin 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, at the age of just 14 years old, Ruth was alive when 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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