Word: puddler
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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Died. Mrs. Esther Nicholls Davis, 74, mother of Secretary of Labor James J. Davis; at Sharon, Pa. She had seen James rise from a puddler's assistant in the iron works to Cabinet rank. Following an old Welsh custom, and in accord with her wish, Mrs. Davis's four sons, James, Walter, Davis, Samuel, and a grandson were pallbearers...
...president of the District Miners' Union; 38, Secretary and Treasurer of the National Union of Miners (1900). Fortunate in a "common school education," honesty, efficiency, he entered Congress; but now is embarked on the business of agriculture. His pre-congressional career is reminiscent of that of Secretary ("Iron-puddler") Davis, of the Department of Labor...