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Emma Mertz 1879 - 1974

Emma Mertz of Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana was born on August 8, 1879, and died at age 95 years old in December 1974.

Emma Mertz
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Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana 46806
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August 8, 1879
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In 1879, in the year that Emma Mertz was born, on October 22nd, Thomas Edison tested the first practical electric light bulb. Lasting 13½ hours before burning out, it used a "a carbon filament or strip coiled and connected to platina contact wires". He applied for a patent on November 4th, receiving the patent in January 1880.
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In 1884, at the age of merely 5 years old, Emma was alive when 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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Mertz, Mary (Mar 4, 1939 - Oct 1978) Mertz, Duane (Apr 6, 1961 - Mar 20, 1992) Mertz, Julia (Jul 30, 1927 - Aug 1979) Mertz, H Linda (Jun 16, 1914 - Apr 1986) Mertz, Patricia (Jul 15, 1940 - Feb 27, 1998) Mertz, Louise (May 12, 1905 - Apr 12, 2008) Mertz, Pauline (Apr 27, 1924 - Feb 5, 2005) Mertz, Jane (Dec 24, 1924 - Nov 21, 1996) Mertz, Rosalie (Sep 20, 1925 - Mar 9, 2001) Mertz, Jane (Sep 11, 1952 - May 19, 2003)
Mertz, William (Sep 20, 1898 - Apr 22, 1989) Mertz, Jacqueline (Sep 19, 1913 - Mar 2, 1998) Mertz, Edward (Jun 28, 1891 - Jul 1974) Mertz, Irene (Jul 26, 1927 - Aug 5, 2010) Mertz, John (Oct 21, 1929 - May 1985) Mertz, Lee (Apr 30, 1893 - Sep 1979) Mertz, August (Sep 12, 1892 - Jan 1965) Mertz, Jessie (Jan 18, 1889 - Feb 1974) Mertz, Eileen (Jan 23, 1898 - Oct 1983) Mertz, Jennie (Aug 29, 1917 - Aug 15, 2001)
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