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William Henry Akey 1877

William Henry Akey was born in 1877 in Sherbrooke, La Région-Sherbrookoise Regional County Municipality, QC Canada to Henry Akey and Angeline (Sawyer) Akey, and has siblings Mary Jane (Akey) Hopkins, Charles Albert Akey, James Frederick Akey, Joseph Edward Victor Akey, John Wilbert Akey, Walter Ernest Earle Akey, and Phoebe Lillian Mae Akey. William Akey died in Peterborough, Peterborough County, ON.
William Henry Akey
1877
Sherbrooke, La Région-Sherbrookoise Regional County Municipality, QC, Canada
Peterborough, Peterborough County, ON, Canada
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In 1877, in the year that William Henry Akey was born, on July 14th, strikes and resulting riots began at the Baltimore and Ohio (B&O) Railroad. A sympathy strike and rioting began in Pittsburgh and a worker's rebellion began in St. Louis, then spread to other cities. 100 people were killed before the strikes ended when President Rutherford B. Hayes sent federal troops to each of the cities involved.
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In 1906, 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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