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Thomas Ralston 1894 - 1977

Thomas Ralston of Terre Haute, Vigo County, Indiana was born on March 28, 1894, and died at age 83 years old in March 1977.
Thomas Ralston
Terre Haute, Vigo County, Indiana 47801
March 28, 1894
March 1977
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Thomas Ralston's History: 1894 - 1977

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    1894

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    March 28, 1894
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    1977

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    March 1977
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    Thomas Ralston lived 8 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 82.
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In 1894, in the year that Thomas Ralston was born, large reserves of oil were discovered on the Osage Indian reservation in Oklahoma. Previously thought to be "useless" land - not even good for farming - the tribe had bought the land themselves. The discovery of oil made the Osage the "richest group of people in the world" at the time.
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In 1911, Thomas was 17 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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