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Kessie Likens 1884 - 1981

Kessie Likens of Henderson, Henderson County, Kentucky was born on December 14, 1884, and died at age 96 years old in April 1981.
Kessie Likens
Henderson, Henderson County, Kentucky 42420
December 14, 1884
April 1981
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  • 12/14
    1884

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    December 14, 1884
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  • 04/dd
    1981

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    April 1981
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    Kessie Likens lived 26 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 96.
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In 1884, in the year that Kessie Likens 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 1933, by the time this person was 49 years old, Frances Perkins became the first woman to hold a cabinet-level position, appointed by President Roosevelt to serve as Secretary of Labor. She told him that her priorities would be a 40-hour work week, a minimum wage, unemployment compensation, worker’s compensation, abolition of child labor, direct federal aid to the states for unemployment relief, Social Security, a revitalized federal employment service, and universal health insurance. President Roosevelt approved of all of them and most them were implemented during his terms as President. She served until his death in 1945.
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