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[August 24, 2019]
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Pictures by Curtis Fox |
Logan County Genealogical and
Historical Society researcher Gary Freese presented the program on
Coxey’s Army, a unique part of 19th Century America that changed how
the federal government treated the populace. |
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A photo of the women in Beason,
Illinois, who helped feed the army of unemployed marchers that
passed through Logan County. |
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Jacob Coxey of Massillon, Ohio, the
businessman who started the march of the unemployed to Washington
D.C. to ask the government for help during the devastating
depression of the 1890’s. |
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The route taken by Jacob Coxey’s Army with Massillon on the upper
left, and Washington D.C. on the lower right. It was a long march
during which most of the bedraggled participants dropped out. |
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Many armies of unemployed started from all over the country heading
to D.C. to let the U.S. government know of their hardships during
the depression of the 1890’s. They walked, stole away on trains, and
built rafts to float down rivers in their quest to make it to the
nation’s capitol. |
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The opulent Chicago World’s Fair of
the 1890’s went on amid the devastation of the depression with
thousands of unemployed from failed railroads, banks, and farms.
Strikes were held to protest the terrible treatment by companies
that made their millions on the backs of the working poor, including
Chicago’s Pullman Railroad Car Company. |
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