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Roland Matthews 1884 - 1974

Roland Matthews of Lafayette, Lafayette County, Louisiana was born on September 8, 1884, and died at age 89 years old in August 1974.
Roland Matthews
Lafayette, Lafayette County, Louisiana 70501
September 8, 1884
August 1974
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Roland Matthews' History: 1884 - 1974

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    1884

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    September 8, 1884
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  • 08/dd
    1974

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    August 1974
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    Roland Matthews lived 17 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 89.
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In 1884, in the year that Roland Matthews 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 1897, by the time he was merely 13 years old, in the January 22nd issue of "Engineering", the word "computer" was first used to refer to a mechanical calculation device. Previously - since the 17th century - the term computer meant "one who computes" and referred to human beings who worked with numbers.
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