Henry Thompson Hedges (1866 - 1949)

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Henry's Family

Elizabeth Ann Habbott Hedges

Hedges Micha East Hedges

Henry Thompson Hedges

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Elizabeth Ann Habbott Hedges

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Hedges Micha East Hedges

Unknown - Unknown

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Brobston Family 1946

Added: Jun 02, 2015

Eunice Margaret (Brobston) Hedges

Added: May 31, 2015

Actress Louise M. Hedges Tyler

Added: Dec 04, 2013

Montgomary W. Talcott, Ohio

Added: Oct 27, 2013

4 Generations

Added: Mar 16, 2004

Hedges' Family

Added: Mar 01, 2004

James General Hedges

Added: Dec 11, 2003

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In 1866, in the year that Henry Thompson Hedges was born, on February 13th, the first robbery committed by Jesse James and his gang - a daylight bank robbery - occurred in Liberty, Missouri. Jesse's presence has been disputed but most historians agree that he was there.

In 1874, at the age of only 8 years old, Henry was alive when on May 20th, Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis were approved for a patent for "blue jeans with copper rivets". They charged $13.50 per dozen jeans. Although the term "jeans" was first used in 1795 - in Italy - using rivets to reinforce stress points in jeans such as pockets and the bottom of the fly was an original idea..

In 1920, at the age of 54 years old, Henry was alive when Italian born factory worker Nicola Sacco and fish peddler Bartolomeo Vanzetti were picked up by police on May 5th in connection with the April 15th murder and robbery of a guard and a paymaster at the Slater and Morrill Shoe Company in South Braintree, Mass. Although in later years they were thought to be innocent, they were anarchists and were convicted of the crime and put to death.

In 1938, by the time he was 72 years old, on June 25th (a Saturday) the Fair Labor Standards Act was signed into law by President Roosevelt (along with 120 other bills). The Act banned oppressive child labor, set the minimum hourly wage at 25 cents, and established the maximum workweek at 44 hours. It faced a lot of opposition and in fighting for it, Roosevelt said "Do not let any calamity-howling executive with an income of $1,000 a day, ...tell you...that a wage of $11 a week is going to have a disastrous effect on all American industry."

In 1949, in the year of Henry Thompson Hedges's passing, on April 4th, NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization) was established. Twelve nations originally signed the North Atlantic Treaty - the United States, Great Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Iceland, Canada, and Portugal. Greece, Turkey, and West Germany later joined. Today, there are 26 nations in NATO.