Word: fromhart
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fled rural poverty in Tipperary. He drifted away from the Roman Catholic Church in his teens because it failed to support trade unionism, and he did not return to it until ?as a railroad engineer in Minnesota ?he married a gentle German girl named Frieda Fromhart. But he stayed radical enough to lose his job for being a militant socialist. When he moved East to Syracuse, N.Y., with his wife and six sons?Thomas Jr., John, James, Jerome, Daniel and Philip?Tom Berrigan helped to organize the city's first electrical workers' union...
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