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It's been a century and a half since the country was rocked with the news that a "monster mill" in Lawrence, Massachusetts, collapsed while hundreds of employees were at work. The Pemberton Mill in 1860 was like others - huge, productive, but not safe for employees. The Pemberton Casualties tells the stories of the 1,003 men, women, and children - oh, so many children! - who were to suffer and die in this disaster. On these pages, the reader will find the names of every one of the thousand. Charts show ages, addresses, and even their final month's wages. Genealogists will find this a gold mine awaiting their searching.
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Alvin Frederick Oickle first wrote for publication at age eleven, getting out neighborhood news during a Springfield, Massachusetts, newspaper strike. A U.S. Army infantryman in WWII, he later wrote for an Army daily in Europe. At home, he graduated from the American Press Institute at Columbia University and was a newspaper editor in Greenfield, Massachusetts, Associated Press feature writer, and writing instructor at UMass/Amherst. He's retired now in Florida and loves reunions with his eight children and their families. His other books include Disaster in Lawrence: The Fall of the Pemberton Mill, a companion book to this one; Jonathan Walker: The Man with the Branded Hand and Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep.
It's been a century and a half since the country was rocked with the news that a "monster mill" in Lawrence, Massachusetts, collapsed while hundreds of employees were at work. The Pemberton Mill in 1860 was like others - huge, productive, but not safe for employees. The Pemberton Casualties tells the stories of the 1,003 men, women, and children - oh, so many children! - who were to suffer and die in this disaster. On these pages, the reader will find the names of every one of the thousand. Charts show ages, addresses, and even their final month's wages. Genealogists will find this a gold mine awaiting their searching.
About the Author
Alvin Frederick Oickle first wrote for publication at age eleven, getting out neighborhood news during a Springfield, Massachusetts, newspaper strike. A U.S. Army infantryman in WWII, he later wrote for an Army daily in Europe. At home, he graduated from the American Press Institute at Columbia University and was a newspaper editor in Greenfield, Massachusetts, Associated Press feature writer, and writing instructor at UMass/Amherst. He's retired now in Florida and loves reunions with his eight children and their families. His other books include Disaster in Lawrence: The Fall of the Pemberton Mill, a companion book to this one; Jonathan Walker: The Man with the Branded Hand and Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep.
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Single Ireland, Pemberton Well, Well Smith, Bay State, Well Kelley, O'Donnell Catholic Cemetery, Well Phelan, Ellen Mahoney, Well Carney, Married Ireland, Mary Ann, The Pemberton Casualties, Henry Koehler, Well Moran, Mary Murphy, Well Davis, Ireland Kelley, Well Kenney, Well Daley, Unhurt Leach, Well Flanagan, Oak Street, Pemberton Mill Browse Sample Pages:
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