Uriah stephens biography of nancy

ATHERTON, Hannah M. , Spouse of John , Born 5/26/1817 , Died 4/8/1891
ATHERTON, Hiram , Born 1/26/1840 , Died 7/10/1846 s/o John & Hannah M.
ATHERTON, John , Born 7/11/1814 , Died 3/7/1870
ATHERTON, Rhoda , Spouse of William , Died 8/26/186_
ATHERTON, Rhoda A. , Born 1847 , Died 1887
ATHERTON, William L. , Died 1817
BANCROFT, Mary Ann , Born 1952 , Died 7/8/1952
BANCROFT, Miriam K , Born 1952 , Died 7/8/1952
BARRETT, Katie Annette , Born 1877 , Died 1950
BENEDICT, Thankful , Born 1855 , Died 1883
BERTRON, William Leroy , Died 8/428/184_ , Age 4m12d s/o DJ & ML
BRIGGS, Lettie M. , Born 1855 , Died 1941
BROUGHTON, James A. , Born 1876 , Died 1904 s/o Charles W. & Susan E.
BUCKLEY, Grace , Born 1884 , Died 1887 d/o Azel & Margaret
BUTLER, Floyd , Born 1888 , Died 1909
BUTLER, Horace , Died 4/10/1909 , Age 63y Co C 104th NY Vol, Civil War
BUTLER, Jennie A. , Born 1890 , Died 1905
BUTLER, Joseph A. , Born 1878 , Died 1934
CAMPBELL, George , Spouse of 2nd Myra Hults , Born 1885 , Died 1970 s/o John & Cora Hagadorne
CAMPBELL, Neal Dean , Born 1953 , Died 1972
CAMPBELL, Susie , Spouse of George , Born 1883 , Died 1938 nee Robinson
CAMPBELL, Wyma Elaine , Born 1940 , Died 1943
CHRISLER, John , Died 12/7/1841 , Age 50y8m23d
COBB, Charles , Born 1841 , Died 1927
COBB, Susan , Born 1852 , Died 1918
COLE, Amos , Born 1868 , Died 1943
COLE, Myrtle , Died 1931
CONNELL, Inas M , Born 1899 , Died 1938
COOTS, Elizabeth "Eliza" , Spouse of Thomas Coots , born 1805 , Died Feb 2 1885 nee Stafford
COOTS, Margaret J , Spouse of Henry Coots , born 1840 , Died Jul 11 1877
COREY, Abigail , Spouse of Elnathan , Died 8/1817 , Age 91y
DAVIS, George , Born 1867 , Died 1941
EVELAND, Andrew , Died 10/4/1893 , Age 59y
FLINT, George H. , Born 1890 , Died 1953
FOSTER, Edwin , Born 1743 , Died 1817
FOSTER, Edwin , Born 1843 , Died 1917 Co H & G NY Inf, Civil War
FOSTER, Henrietta C. , Spouse of Edwin , Born 1840

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Katie McVicar, the Knights of Labor, and the Organization of Women Workers

The Trade Unions Act of 1872 and the emergence of the Canadian Labour Union (CLU) heralded a new wave of labour organizing in Canada.  For the first time in the history of the nascent Canadian state, and in British North American before it, workers organized across localities and broad occupational lines, aggregating their strength to challenge employers who had long coordinated their assault on workers’ autonomy and welfare.

However, major barriers to solidarity remained.  Barred from the CLU were labourers traditionally designated as “unskilled,” including workers in the factory assembly lines, the canals, and lonely manor houses.  Such jobs were disproportionately worked by immigrant workers, by women, and by workers of colour, fracturing the labor movement along ethnographic as well as occupational lines. These divisions hampered labour strength and solidarity during the nineteenth century and tethered the labour movement to racist projects that aligned nationality with whiteness and northern ancestry.

When progressive change and inclusivity did come to the labour movement, it did not arrive by the guiding hand of the labour officialdom.  Much as

Descendants of John Stephens and Lucretia Gaskill                     1. JOHN STEPHENS, b. ... [ca. 1735], d. ... [will dated 2 Jan. 1787, probated Monmouth Co., N. J., 23 March 1787] son of ... Stephens and of ... ,
m. (1) Burlington Monthly Meeting, Burlington, N. J., ... 1760
LUCRETIA GASKILL, b. Burlington Co., N. J., ... 1744, d. ... [before 22 Aug. 1785], dau. of Edward Gaskill and of Elizabeth Lippincott,
m. (2) ... [before 2 Jan. 1787], as her first husband,
Fanny Brock, b. ... , d. ... [she later m. (2) ... (by 20 Aug. 1792), Thomas Emley, b. ... , d. ... ], dau. of ... Brock and of ... . Issue by first wife (surname Stephens): 2 a. Samuel, b. Freehold, Monmouth Co., N. J., ... 1761, d. ... 7 Dec. 1803. 3 b. Edward, b. Burlington, N. J., 6 March 1763, d. Greene Co., Pa., 3 May 1846. c. Thomas, b. Burlington, N. J., ... 1771, d. ... . 4 d. James, b. Burlington, N. J., 6 Sept 1773, d. Monongalia Co., [W.] Va., 8 July 1861. 5 e. Apollo, b. Burlington, N. J., ... 1775, d. Monroe Co., Ohio, 6 Sept. 1844. 6 f. John, b. Burlington, N. J., ... 1777, d. ... . 7 g. Stacy, b. Burlington, N. J., 16 Sept. 1779, d. Greene Co., Pa., 30 Oct. 1861. Issue by second wife: none.


Generation II


2. Samuel Stephens, b. Freehold, Monmouth Co., N. J., ... 1761, d. ... 7 Dec. 1803, son of John Stephens [number 1] and of Lucretia Gaskill,
m. ... 22 Feb. 1790, Rebecca Halstead, b. ... 28 Jan. 1762, d. ... 21 May 1819, dau. of Timothy Halstead and of Zilpha ... . For issue, see Part LVI.

3. Edward Stephens, b. Burlington, N. J., 6 March 1763, d. Greene Co., Pa., 3 May 1846, son of John Stephens [number 1] and of Lucretia Gaskill,
m. ... 6 March 1787, Hannah Woodward, b. Monmouth Co., N. J., 12 April 1770, d. Greene Co., Pa., 2 Feb. 18