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| Patrick and Catherine O’Leary | The Great Chicago Fire started in or near the barn of |
| Howard Hoffman | had on his shirt from his WWI uniform, and the crowd made him take it off. He was one of the lucky two to survive the attack at the cemetery, but he died of his wounds two days later |
| Deflation | a decrease in the general price level of goods and services |
| Gustavus Swift | the first Chicago meat-packer to use refrigerated railroad cars |
| Granges | social societies that farmers formed in response to concerns over deflation, debt, and railroad rates that soon began to push for government regulations |
| Sears, Roebuck & Company | originally a mail-order company that began by selling watches and jewelry by mail, requiring a 50 cent deposit to guarantee payment |
| Greenback Party | called for an increase in the supply of paper money |
| William C. Garwood | may have created the ice cream sundae |
| Joseph Farwell Glidden | was impressed with Henry Rose’s efforts, and adapted old grindstone to twist two lengths of wire together so they could hold and added sharp metal spurs in place along the wire to create barbed wire |
| William J. Lester | owned the Southern Illinois Coal Company and hired Hargrave Secret Service Agency to ask people how they would feel about non-union miners operating during the strike |
| Scott Doody | a local radio personality who began an effort to find where the Herrin massacre bodies were buried in order to rectify the issue with a veteran’s marker |
| C.K. McDowell | the mine superintendent who was pulled out of line and shot at Moake’s Crossing |
| Major General Nelson Miles | blamed some of the 5000 deaths during the War of 1898 on the canned meat the military received from Chicago |
| Anton Mulkavich | The VFW and American Legion put up a marker in the cemetery for him as he was a decorated World War I veteran. The discovery of the location of the victims’ burial site started as a movement to restore his marker |
| Otis Clark | the leader of the second group of union men at the mailboxes. He gave a speech about the awfulness of scabs, how they should be taken out and killed to get rid of the breed |
| Hugh Willis | the local union president, who told the mob they could not kill the workers at the Power House, for too many women and children were nearby |
| Potter’s Field | section of the Herrin City Cemetery where the 16 men whose bodies had not been claimed were buried |
| Power House Woods | where the union men marched the workers and then began shooting them as they ran away, trying to get through the barbed-wire fence |
| Dillard Building | turned into a temporary morgue for the bodies of the victims |
| Robert J. Anderson | shot and hung from a tree in Harrison’s woods because the union men suspected him of being the mine’s machine gunner |
| P.J. O’Rourke | shot seven times and had his throat cut, but he was one of two taken to the hospital and survived |
| Upton Sinclair | published The Jungle about the Chicago meat-packing industry |
