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Alfred Garland Swetnam 1879 - 1912

Alfred Garland Swetnam of VIC Australia was born in 1879 at Donnelly Creek to Mary Garland Swetnam and James William Swetnam. He had siblings Mary Swetnam Sadler, Frances Eva (Swetnam) Swannell, James William Swetnam, Thomas Eugene Swetnam, and John Garland Swetnam. Alfred Swetnam died at age 33 years old in 1912 in Bairnsdale, East Gippsland Shire County.

Alfred Garland Swetnam
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Donnelly Creek in VIC Australia
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1879
Donnelly Creek in VIC, Australia
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Bairnsdale, East Gippsland Shire County, VIC, 3875, Australia
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In 1879, in the year that Alfred Garland Swetnam 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 only 5 years old, Alfred 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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Swetnam, Ina (Dec 26, 1921 - Apr 28, 1991) Swetnam, John (Jul 28, 1887 - Jul 1967) Swetnam, Hubert (Nov 10, 1917 - Jan 23, 2010) Swetnam, Theodore (Jun 16, 1948 - Dec 4, 2008) Swetnam, Gerald (Nov 23, 1919 - Jul 20, 2005) Swetnam, Theodore (Jun 5, 1923 - Feb 10, 2004) Swetnam, Dorothy (May 9, 1934 - Dec 23, 2008) Swetnam, Lillian (Jan 22, 1927 - Mar 9, 2010) Swetnam, Robert (May 7, 1910 - Dec 15, 2006) Swetnam, Frank (Dec 27, 1907 - Oct 10, 1996)
Swetnam, Mary (Jun 9, 1910 - Jun 20, 2000) Swetnam, George (Mar 11, 1904 - Apr 3, 1999) Swetnam, Ruth (Dec 10, 1909 - Dec 2, 1989) Swetnam, Mildred (Apr 18, 1908 - Apr 1977) Swetnam, Montrivill (Aug 25, 1910 - May 1968) Swetnam, Margaret (May 17, 1909 - Mar 29, 1989) Swetnam, Russell (Dec 14, 1946 - Aug 31, 2004) Swetnam, Susan (Jan 15, 1885 - Apr 1966) Swetnam, Ford (Feb 6, 1915 - Jan 1986) Swetnam, Ford (Aug 30, 1941 - Apr 8, 2002)
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