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Paul Blankenship

Troy A and Russell Blankenship

Elias and Mary Ann Jenkins Blankenship

Parton and Gibson Family, West Virginia

Birtie & Juliet Blankenship

William Blankenship gravesite

William Blankenship & Virginia Jane (Stafford) Blankenship

Laura Alice Hatfield Blankenship Gravesite

Mirtie Blankenship

Mirtie Blankenship

Mirtie Blankenship

Linsey Price with two of his Blankenship step-brothers about 1855 in Daviess county Missouri.

Charles Blankenship On Horseback

faimly 1850

Martha Blankenship

nannie and charles

Dow & Callie Ward Blankenship & family

Miles G. Blankenship Gravesite

Lulu

1949 Fletcher Reunion

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In 1908, in the year that Simon Arthur Blankenship was born, unemployment in the U.S. was at 8.0% and the cost of a first-class stamp was 2 cents while the population in the United States was 88,710,000. The world population was almost 4.4 billion.

In 1926, Simon was 18 years old when on November 15th, NBC was founded. It was the U.S.'s first major broadcast network. Ownership of the network was split between RCA (a majority partner at 50%), its founding corporate parent General Electric (which owned 30%), and Westinghouse (which owned the remaining 20%).

In 1938, he was 30 years old when on June 25th (a Saturday) the Fair Labor Standards Act was signed into law by President Roosevelt (along with 120 other bills). The Act banned oppressive child labor, set the minimum hourly wage at 25 cents, and established the maximum workweek at 44 hours. It faced a lot of opposition and in fighting for it, Roosevelt said "Do not let any calamity-howling executive with an income of $1,000 a day, ...tell you...that a wage of $11 a week is going to have a disastrous effect on all American industry."

In 1962, Simon was 54 years old when on February 20th, Lt. Col. John H. Glenn, Jr. became the first American to orbit the Earth. The Friendship 7 flew three times around the earth in 4 hours and 55 minutes. At age 77, Glenn returned to space - the oldest person to fly in space.

In 1974, in the year of Simon Arthur Blankenship's passing, on February 5th, Patty Hearst, age 19 - granddaughter of William Randolph Hearst and daughter of publisher of the San Francisco Examiner Randolph Hearst - was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army, a left wing terrorist group. She was found, alive, 19 months later.