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Christopher Arthur Griffith 1859 - 1949

Christopher Arthur Griffith of East Melbourne Australia was born in 1859 to Arthur Hill Griffith and Hannah Rose Cottingham Griffith. He had siblings James De Burgh Griffith, Chtte Mary Griffith, Elizabeth Hannah Griffith, and Llywellyn Downes Griffith. Christopher Griffith died at age 90 years old in 1949 in East Melbourne.
Christopher Arthur Griffith
East Melbourne Australia
1859
1949
East Melbourne, Australia
Male
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    1949
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    East Melbourne Australia
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    Christopher Arthur Griffith lived 17 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 90.
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In 1859, in the year that Christopher Arthur Griffith was born, on February 27th, US Congressman Daniel Sickles shot and killed Philip Barton Key - a US. District Attorney and son of Francis Scott Key, writer of the national anthem, for having an affair with his wife. Sickles claimed temporary insanity - the first to do so - and was acquitted.
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In 1884, he was 25 years old 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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