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George Bretney 1894 - 1966

George Bretney of Chicago, Cook County, Illinois was born on June 2, 1894, and died at age 72 years old in August 1966.

George Bretney
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Chicago, Cook County, Illinois 60614
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June 2, 1894
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In 1894, in the year that George Bretney was born, large reserves of oil were discovered on the Osage Indian reservation in Oklahoma. Previously thought to be "useless" land - not even good for farming - the tribe had bought the land themselves. The discovery of oil made the Osage the "richest group of people in the world" at the time.
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In 1911, at the age of 17 years old, George was alive when the Triangle Shirtwaist fire occurred, one of the deadliest industrial disasters in U.S. history. 146 workers (123 women and 23 men, many of them recent Jewish and Italian immigrants) died from the fire or by jumping to escape the fire and smoke. The garment factory was on the 8th, 9th, and 10th floors of a building in Greenwich Village in Manhattan. Doors to stairwells and exits had been locked in order to prevent workers from taking unauthorized breaks and to prevent theft, so they couldn't escape by normal means when the fire broke out. Due to the disaster, legislation was passed to protect sweatshop workers.
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Bretney, Josephine (Mar 5, 1885 - Dec 1976) Bretney, Clara (Jun 4, 1881 - Oct 1977) Bretney, Violet (Jan 13, 1913 - Feb 17, 2003) Bretney, Gareth (Sep 2, 1903 - Jun 1966) Bretney, Rilla (Jun 21, 1900 - Oct 1981) Bretney, Della (Feb 11, 1917 - Jun 4, 2004) Bretney, Lucile (Mar 8, 1889 - Jul 1978) Bretney, Jacquelyn (Oct 9, 1940 - Aug 1973) Bretney, Rod (Feb 22, 1958 - Feb 1976) Bretney, Elizabeth (Dec 10, 1913 - Oct 1986)
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