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William Schafer 1877 - 1968

William Schafer of Dixon, Lee County, Illinois was born on April 13, 1877, and died at age 90 years old in March 1968.

William Schafer

Dixon, Lee County, Illinois 61021

April 13, 1877

March 1968

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In 1877, in the year that William Schafer 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 1909, he was 32 years old when the New York Times published the first movie review. It was a report on D.W. Griffith's movie "Pippa Passes" also called "The Song of Conscience", a silent film. The review said that this work was moving away from "lurid material that attracted the wrath of censors and concerned citizens and toward more respectable ends. The movie was the story of a young female factory worker, on her day off, wandering and singing - thus changing the hearts of those around her towards good.

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