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Mary Thompson 1879 - 1976

Mary Thompson of Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan was born on November 12, 1879, and died at age 96 years old in July 1976.
Mary Thompson
Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan 49508
November 12, 1879
July 1976
Female
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    November 12, 1879
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    1976

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    July 1976
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    Mary Thompson lived 24 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 96.
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In 1879, in the year that Mary Thompson was born, on October 22nd, Thomas Edison tested the first practical electric light bulb. Lasting 13½ hours before burning out, it used a "a carbon filament or strip coiled and connected to platina contact wires". He applied for a patent on November 4th, receiving the patent in January 1880.
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In 1884, by the time she was merely 5 years old, 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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