1910                 Documents in Year 1911                      1912


Document

Person

State

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1832-1915

 Jeremiah Vardaman Cockrell
Civil War Veteran - Confederate
Prior Congressman

79 years old - Texas

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1834-1915

Senator Francis Marion Cockrell
Civil War Veteran - Confederate

77 years old - Missouri

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1838-1923

John Thomas Vardiman
Civil War Veteran - Union

73 years old - Missouri

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1846-1921

Cornelia F. Gaines Vardiman
(Wife of John Thomas)

65 years old - Missouri

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1861-1930

Major James Kimble Vardaman
(Spanish American War Veteran, Future Mississippi Senator & Great, Great Grandson of John II Vardeman "the pioneer")

50 years old - Mississippi

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1867-1956

Ernest Johnson Vardiman
(son of John Thomas)

44 years old - Missouri

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1869-1945

John Peter Vardiman
(son of John Thomas)

42 years old - Missouri

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1871-1949

Richard "Dick" Henry Vardiman
(son of John Thomas)

40 years old - Missouri

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1872-1966

Luella "May" Smith
(Wife of John Peter)

39 years old - Missouri

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1873-1959

Jeremiah "Jerry" Vardiman
(son of John Thomas)

38 years old - Missouri

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1875-1945

Hiram Botts Vardiman
(son of John Thomas)

36 years old - Missouri

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1878-1952

Grace Truman Vardiman
(daughter of John Thomas)

33 years old - Missouri

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1880-1949

Miles Standish Vardiman
(son of John Thomas)

31 years old - Missouri

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1882-1958

Bonnie Stanley Vardiman
(daughter of John Thomas)

29 years old - Missouri

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1885-1980

Mary "Mollie" Josephine Harris Vardiman
(wife of Miles Standish)

26 years old - Missouri

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1885-1964

Margaret May "Maggie" Vardiman
(daughter of John Thomas)

26 years old - Missouri

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1887-1977

Elizabeth "Lizzie" Gaimes Vardiman
(Daughter of John Thomas)

24 years old - Missouri

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1890-1970

Frances Laura "Fannie" Vardiman
(Daughter of John Thomas)

21 years old - Missouri

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1890-1985

Emma Henriette Jensen
(future wife of Charles Henry)

21 years old - Minnesota 

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1893-1972

Captain James K. Vardaman Jr.
(Future Naval Aide to President Truman during WWII & Son of James Kimble Vardaman)

18 years old - Mississippi

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1896-1962

Charles Henry Vardiman
(son of John Peter)

15 years old - Missouri

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1899-1984

John Wesley Vardiman "Johnny"
(son of John Peter)

12 years old - Missouri

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1905-1972

Miles Edman Vardeman "Eddie"
(son of John Peter)

6 years old - Missouri

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1908-1986

Gladys Elizabeth Babler
(future wife of  Miles Edman "Eddie" Vardeman)

3 years old - Missouri

1911 Newspaper Clippings

Links of Interest:

  • William Howard Taft, Twenty-seventh U.S. President

  • (1909-1913)


  • Food: Proctor & Gamble develops hydrogenated vegetable shortening and calls it Crisco. Canned chili goes on sale.
    Anderson, Jean American Century Cookbook. p 65

  • Photography:

  • Edward S. Curtis

    (American Photographer of Native Americans 1899-1929)

    Lewis W. Hine

    (American Photographer of Child Labor in America 1908-1912)

    Child Labor

    In the late 1700's and early 1800's, power-driven machines replaced hand labor for making most manufactured items. The factory owners found a new source of cheap labor to run their machines — children. European countries like Great Britain began making laws to shorten working hours and raise the working age in the late 1800s.  The United States raised the working age to sixteen during school hours and fourteen during after school hours in

    1938.

    Technology:
  • The Men Who Built America (Standard Oil and Ford Motor Company)

  • In 1911 Rockefeller (Standard Oil, a monopoly who believed in crushing his competition is being sued by the U.S. government). And Ford (Ford Company, an automanufacturer who believes in making cars affordable through an assembly line process and treating his workers well) is being sued by A.L.A.M. an automobile monopoly who wants a royalty on every car Ford sells, which would make cars unaffordable for the common man and essentially shut Ford down.

    Both Rockefeller and Ford were in federal court in 1911. Rockefeller loses and "Standard Oil is broken up into 34 smaller companies like Exxon, Mobile, and Chevron. The Age of Monopoly is over." Ford wins his case and can manufacture cars without repercussion.

    Rockefeller ends up with large amounts of stock in all the gasoline companies that are spawned from his monopoly and he becomes the richest man in the history of the world with a net worth of $660 billion in 2014 dollars. Rockefeller's gasoline fuels automobiles and Carnegie's steel powered by JP Morgan's electricity provides the material for the cars. The Industrial revolution creates a middle class with standardized work weeks and livable wages.

  • Henry Ford Model T Assembly Line

  • The Ford Motor Company is mass producing automobiles using an assembly line process to make the Model T at an affordable price, $825 each. He pays a livable wage of $5 per day to his workers and standardizes the eight hour day five days a week. He believes in competition and is the antithesis of monopolies.

  • The New York Electric Exhibition introduces "electrified" chafing dishes, skillets, grills, percolators, toasters, waffle irons.
    Anderson, Jean American Century Cookbook. p 65won

  • Matches Invented

  • In 1910, the Diamond Match Company patented the first nonpoisonous match in the U.S., which used a safe chemical called sesquisulfide of phophorous. United States President William H. Taft publicly asked Diamond Match to release their patent for the good of mankind. They did on January 28, 1911.

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