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Katharine Pownall 1884 - 1968

Katharine Pownall of Goshen, Orange County, NY was born on May 29, 1884, and died at age 84 years old in December 1968.
Katharine Pownall
Goshen, Orange County, NY 10924
May 29, 1884
December 1968
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Katharine Pownall's History: 1884 - 1968

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    1884

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    May 29, 1884
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  • 12/dd
    1968

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    December 1968
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    Katharine Pownall lived 9 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 84.
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In 1884, in the year that Katharine Pownall 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 1901, when she was 17 years old, the first Nobel Prizes were awarded. Chemist and engineer Alfred Nobel, who died in 1896, had provided in his will for prizes in physics, chemistry, and physiology or medicine, who have produced the most distinguished literary work of an idealist tendency, and who have contributed the most toward world peace. The winners in 1901 were: Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen for physics, Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff for chemistry, Emil Adolf von Behring for physiology or medicine, Sully Prudhomme for literature, and Jean Henry Dunant and Frédéric Passy for peace.
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