Word: braidwood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lost his own right leg when he, 13, substituted for a switchman who was off on a post-payday drunk, at a coal mine in Braidwood, Ill. He tried to uncouple two cars of a moving train; his right foot became wedged in a frog and stayed there...
...Illinoisans were amused, amazed, intrigued. "Boss" Brennan had jumped from the back room to the stump. What was he doing running for public office? All his life he had avoided it. Born in Cayuga County,* New York, in 1865, he earned his first dollar in a coal mine in Braidwood, 111. Miners probably decided that George Brennan would make a success of life when he lost a leg. A switchman was absent on a post-payday drunk. George, substituting, tried to uncouple two cars of a moving train. His foot became wedged in a frog and stayed there. He wears...