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Virgil Purkey 1902 - 1981

Virgil Purkey of Elkins, Randolph County, West Virginia was born on April 25, 1902, and died at age 79 years old in October 1981.

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In 1902, in the year that Virgil Purkey was born, the modern air conditioner was invented by Willis H. Carrier. The company that he worked for needed to find a way to control humidity and by solving this problem, Carrier created a system that could be used for cooling the rooms of a house. The Sun Belt thanks him!
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In 1911, at the age of just 9 years old, Virgil 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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Purkey, Sylvia (Jan 30, 1901 - Oct 1979) Purkey, Vera (Jan 2, 1915 - Jul 26, 2010) Purkey, Michael (Jul 21, 1907 - Nov 1970) Purkey, Josephine (Mar 7, 1909 - Aug 1981) Purkey, Edward (Dec 21, 1891 - Aug 1973) Purkey, Stephen (Jan 14, 1958 - Mar 16, 2007) Purkey, Ruth (Feb 16, 1923 - Jan 6, 2004) Purkey, Ruby (Nov 27, 1893 - Dec 1981) Purkey, John (Apr 10, 1895 - Apr 1965) Purkey, Christophe (Mar 10, 1967 - Jan 4, 2010)
Purkey, Lois (Nov 26, 1939 - Jan 27, 2007) Purkey, Elizabeth (Feb 26, 1919 - Jul 28, 1992) Purkey, Ida (May 14, 1897 - May 1974) Purkey, Frank (Jun 21, 1899 - Mar 1976) Purkey, Vernon (Mar 13, 1908 - Jan 1964) Purkey, Raymond (Apr 19, 1905 - Sep 1976) Purkey, Clifford (Dec 31, 1910 - Nov 1981) Purkey, Robert (Jul 14, 1929 - Mar 16, 2008) Purkey, Lisa (Jul 24, 1967 - Feb 22, 2006) Purkey, Joan (Jul 10, 1932 - Feb 12, 2008)
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