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Gertie Thorn 1884 - 1973

Gertie Thorn of Morgantown, Monongalia County, West Virginia was born on April 18, 1884, and died at age 88 years old in February 1973.

Gertie Thorn
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Morgantown, Monongalia County, West Virginia 26505
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April 18, 1884
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In 1884, in the year that Gertie Thorn 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 1891, Gertie was merely 7 years old when on March 14th, a lynch mob stormed the Old Parish Prison. The mob lynched 11 of the 19 Italians who were arrested for - but found to be innocent of - the murder of New Orleans Police Chief David Hennessy.
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Thorn, Ina (Sep 1, 1892 - Sep 1980) Thorn, Marion (Mar 31, 1898 - May 1985) Thorn, Homer (Nov 10, 1905 - Nov 18, 1993) Thorn, Frances (Jan 16, 1910 - Jun 15, 1993) Thorn, Charles (May 31, 1894 - May 1966) Thorn, Henrietta (Apr 28, 1907 - Mar 1966) Thorn, Janet (Jan 28, 1916 - Aug 4, 1996) Thorn, Edith (Oct 28, 1902 - Jan 1986) Thorn, Lorraine (May 9, 1938 - Aug 23, 2011) Thorn, Russell (Sep 17, 1946 - Sep 8, 2008)
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