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Ruth Somers 1899 - 1974

Ruth Somers of Oak Park, Cook County, Illinois was born on October 8, 1899, and died at age 74 years old in May 1974.
Ruth Somers
Oak Park, Cook County, Illinois 60302
October 8, 1899
May 1974
Female
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  • 10/8
    1899

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    October 8, 1899
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  • 05/dd
    1974

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    May 1974
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    Ruth Somers lived exactly as long as the average family member when died at the age of 74.
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In 1899, in the year that Ruth Somers was born, on February 4th, the Philippine–American War began. The Philippines objected to the Treaty of Paris, signed in 1898, that transferred possession of the Philippines from Spain to the U.S. Filipinos began a fight for independence and fighting between U.S. forces and those of the Philippine Republic broke out. On June 2nd, the Philippines officially declared war on the United States.
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In 1911, she was just 12 years old 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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