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Edith Elmers 1884 - 1977

Edith Elmers of Chicago, Cook County, Illinois was born on October 10, 1884, and died at age 92 years old in August 1977.
Edith Elmers
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois 60640
October 10, 1884
August 1977
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    1884

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    October 10, 1884
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    1977

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    August 1977
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    Edith Elmers lived 16 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 92.
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In 1884, in the year that Edith Elmers 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 1900, at the age of 16 years old, Edith was alive when Carrie Chapman Catt succeeded Susan B. Anthony as the president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. NAWSA was created by Anthony in 1890 in order to fight for the right of women to vote in the United States. Membership in NAWSA began at 7,000 and in the decades of the struggle - women didn't get the right to vote until 1920 - membership rose to 2 million.
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