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Workers' associations first formed in the 1860s which assumed union functions, mutual insurance activities, sponsored candidates for election and campaigned in referendums. [2] In 1873 a number of the associations in the German-speaking areas formed the Workers' Federation ( German : Arbeiterbund ), which represented around 5,000 by the late ...
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Hall was born on August 25, 1871, in Woodville, Mississippi to a well-off family. [1] His father was a Presbyterian minister. His family soon moved to Louisiana and lived in Terrebonne Parish on his family's sugar plantation until it was foreclosed upon in 1891, an event which prompted Hall to move to New Orleans where he took up a series of jobs including selling insurance.
Thibodaux (/ ˈ t ɪ b ə d oʊ / TIB-ə-doh) is a city in, and the parish seat of, Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, United States, [3] along the banks of Bayou Lafourche in the northwestern part of the parish. The population was 15,948 at the 2020 census. [4] Thibodaux is a principal city of the Houma–Bayou Cane–Thibodaux metropolitan ...
Twenty AIG subsidiaries are licensed to do business in Pennsylvania, including National Union Fire Insurance Co. in Pittsburgh, believed to be the second largest AIG underwriter in the nation. Other subsidiaries include New Hampshire Insurance, Insurance Company of the State of Pennsylvania, Granite State Insurance and New Hampshire Indemnity. [11]
Henry Schuyler Thibodaux (September 24, [citation needed] 1769 – October 24, 1827) was a planter and politician, who served one month in 1824 as the fourth Governor of Louisiana. At the time that Governor Thomas B. Robertson resigned in 1824 to accept appointment as a federal judge, Thibodaux was President of the State Senate and succeeded ...
The Thibodaux Massacre was an episode of white supremacist violence that occurred in Thibodaux, Louisiana on November 23, 1887. It followed a three-week strike during the critical harvest season in which an estimated 10,000 workers protested against the living and working conditions which existed on sugar cane plantations in four parishes: Lafourche, Terrebonne, St. Mary, and Assumption.
The Percy-Lobdell Building is a historic warehouse located at 314 St. Mary Street in Thibodaux, Louisiana, United States.. Built in c.1900, the structure is a two-story brick Italianate style warehouse with a monumental false front five bays wide. [2]