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FOCUS ON HISTORY - An Irish immigrant woman who lived and worked in Amsterdam became a national union leader in the 19th century.Leonora Kearney Barry wrote. “Day after day, I sat sewing men’s trousers for five cents a dozen.”Leonora was born in 1849 in Cork. Her parents, John and Honor Kearney, fle
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Having left New Ipswich, New Hampshire for Quincy in 1828, Benjamin Safford became ill and died in Roscoe, Ohio. A year later John P. Robbins, Safford’s son-in-law, began the same
Canadian politicians held little influence with Collingwood Schreiber when it came to organizing railway routes.