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Sylvester Nelson 1903 - 1987

Sylvester Nelson of Van Nuys, Los Angeles County, CA was born on May 1, 1903, and died at age 84 years old on October 15, 1987.
Sylvester Nelson
Van Nuys, Los Angeles County, CA 91405
May 1, 1903
October 15, 1987
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Sylvester Nelson's History: 1903 - 1987

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    1903

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    May 1, 1903
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  • 10/15
    1987

    Death

    October 15, 1987
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    Sylvester Nelson lived 11 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 84.
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In 1903, in the year that Sylvester Nelson was born, the United States Department of Commerce and Labor was created by President Theodore Roosevelt to control the excesses of big business. Renamed the Department of Commerce 10 years later, many departments concerned with workers were transferred to the Department of Labor at that time. Another spin-off, the Bureau of Corporations, became the Federal Trade Commission.
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In 1911, at the age of just 8 years old, Sylvester 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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