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Ruby Van Degrift 1879 - 1971

Ruby Van Degrift of Elkton, Todd County, Kentucky was born on October 29, 1879, and died at age 91 years old in January 1971.

Ruby Van Degrift
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Elkton, Todd County, Kentucky 42220
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October 29, 1879
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January 1971
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In 1879, in the year that Ruby Van Degrift 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, she was only 5 years old when 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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Van Degrift, Elizabeth (Jun 28, 1912 - May 1985) Van Degrift, Paul (Sep 6, 1955 - Nov 4, 2009) Van Degrift, Rosalind (Oct 9, 1910 - Sep 1988) Van-Degrift, Geneva (Jul 1, 1916 - Mar 1981) Van Degrift, Barry (Feb 22, 1925 - Jan 27, 2005) Van Degrift, Val (Mar 19, 1933 - Feb 1966) Van Degrift, Virginia (Mar 25, 1925 - Mar 17, 2010) Van Degrift, Robert (May 26, 1919 - May 1982)
Van Degrift, Paul (Nov 5, 1905 - Mar 16, 2008) Van Degrift, Lolita (Feb 13, 1939 - Nov 19, 2007) Van Degrift, Albert (Jul 17, 1915 - Sep 20, 1996) Van Degrift, Marian (Jun 14, 1938 - Jan 5, 2010) Van Degrift, Richard (Feb 26, 1924 - Oct 10, 2010) Van Degrift, Mary (Nov 25, 1904 - Apr 1981) Van Degrift, William (Apr 10, 1940 - Oct 1, 2005)
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