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William Kerr Addison 1884 - 1959

William Kerr Addison of Asco Australia was born in 1884 to William Robe Addison and Elizabeth Hamil Kerr Addison. He had siblings Robert Hamilton Addison, Donald Mcgaw Addison, and George Arthur Addison. William Addison died at age 75 years old in 1959 in Asco.
William Kerr Addison
Asco Australia
1884
1959
Asco, Australia
Male
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    1884
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  • 1959

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    1959
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    Asco Australia
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    William Kerr Addison lived 5 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 75.
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In 1884, in the year that William Kerr Addison was born, on August 5th, the cornerstone for the base of the Statue of Liberty - a gift from the people of France - was laid. 120,000 people - most donations were $1 - donated to the completion of the base. An 1883 poem by Emma Lazarus was also written to raise funds. That poem was included in the base of the statue and is well known today. The most famous phrase: "Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
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In 1911, when he was 27 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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