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Thyra Wessman 1903 - 1981

Thyra Wessman of South Holland, Cook County, Illinois was born on June 26, 1903, and died at age 78 years old in July 1981.
Thyra Wessman
South Holland, Cook County, Illinois 60473
June 26, 1903
July 1981
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    1903

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    June 26, 1903
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  • 07/dd
    1981

    Death

    July 1981
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    Thyra Wessman lived 4 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 78.
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In 1903, in the year that Thyra Wessman was born, two brothers, Orville and Wilbur Wright, flew the first powered heavier-than-air plane. They flew 4 times in one day - the longest flight lasting 59 seconds and a little over 852 feet. While the brothers had notified several newspapers of their attempt, only one - a local paper - covered it. After their 4th flight, a gust of wind caught the plane, turned it over, and totaled it.
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In 1911, by the time she was just 8 years old, 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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