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Bessie Higginbotham 1884 - 1973

Bessie Higginbotham of Soquel, Santa Cruz County, California was born on August 11, 1884, and died at age 88 years old in July 1973.

Bessie Higginbotham

Soquel, Santa Cruz County, California 95073

August 11, 1884

July 1973

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In 1884, in the year that Bessie Higginbotham was born, on May 1st, the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions - a US association - first resolved that "eight hours shall constitute a legal day's labour from and after May 1, 1886, and that we recommend to labour organisations throughout this jurisdiction that they so direct their laws as to conform to this resolution by the time named." Previously, workdays would consist of 10 to 16 hours a day - 6 days a week. It would take years before the 8 hour workday became common practice - and longer before it became a law.

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In 1892, she was only 8 years old when on January 1st, Ellis Island opened to process immigrants. 700 passed through on the first day - in the first year, 450,000 were processed. The processing center was originally a 3 story wooden building - with outbuildings - that burned down a few years later.

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