Friday, June 7, 1901

Fri. 7th – They cut the hrs. to 10 each day & wages to $1.80 a day. Today is Jesse’s parents’ anniversary. Sarah Elizabeth Reynolds and James J. Bench got married on Thursday, June 7, 1866, in Dawn, Livingston County, Missouri. Sarah was 17 years old, and James was 22. John M. Jarvis conducted the ceremony. In 1901, it would…

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