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Samuel Williams 1884 - 1966

Samuel Williams of Birmingham, Jefferson County, AL was born on January 4, 1884, and died at age 82 years old on July 15, 1966.
Samuel Williams
Birmingham, Jefferson County, AL 35204
January 4, 1884
July 15, 1966
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    1884

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    January 4, 1884
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  • 07/15
    1966

    Death

    July 15, 1966
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    Samuel Williams lived 12 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 82.
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In 1884, in the year that Samuel Williams 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, Samuel was 17 years old when 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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