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Ollie Purkey 1892 - 1978

Ollie Purkey of Edwardsville, Madison County, Illinois was born on August 25, 1892, and died at age 85 years old in February 1978.

Ollie Purkey

Edwardsville, Madison County, Illinois 62025

August 25, 1892

February 1978

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In 1892, in the year that Ollie Purkey was born, on October 5th, the Dalton Gang was shot. The Gang was attempting to rob two banks - simultaneously - in Coffeyville Kansas but word spread of the robberies and townspeople with guns greeted them when they left the banks. Four members of the gang were killed - only Emmett Dalton survived his wounds and spent 14 years in prison.

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In 1906, by the time he was only 14 years old, author Upton Sinclair exposed the public-health threat of the meat-packing industry in his book The Jungle. While his intent was to show the lives of exploited lives of immigrants in Chicago and other industrialized cities, most people were horrified by how the meat that ended up on their tables was handled. There was such an outcry that legislation was passed to regulate meat packing. Sinclair said " "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach."

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