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Sara Agnes McLaughlin Conboy

American labor leader
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Sara Agnes McLaughlin
Born:
April 3, 1870, Boston, Mass., U.S.
Died:
Jan. 7, 1928, Brooklyn, N.Y. (aged 57)
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Sara Agnes McLaughlin Conboy (born April 3, 1870, Boston, Mass., U.S.—died Jan. 7, 1928, Brooklyn, N.Y.) was a labour leader, one of the first women to achieve a position of influence in the highest levels of American organized labour. Sara McLaughlin went to work in a candy factory at age 11. Over the next several years she worked in a button factory and then in various carpet mills, becoming a skilled weaver. She also married Joseph P. Conboy, who died two years after their marriage. Her success in leading the employees of the Roxbury mill where she worked in a ...(100 of 200 words)

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