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Terence Vincent Powderly

Terence Vincent Powderly. Dude! Check out that ‘stache!. By: Kale Drost. Timeline Early Childhood. 1869. 1863. 1866. Jan 22, 1849. 1862. Apprenticed to the mechanist trade. Employed by Delaware and Hudson Railroad. Born. Employed at the D.L.&W. Company in the Locomotive shop.

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Terence Vincent Powderly

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  1. Terence Vincent Powderly Dude! Check out that ‘stache! By: Kale Drost

  2. Timeline Early Childhood 1869 1863 1866 Jan 22, 1849 1862 Apprenticed to the mechanist trade Employed by Delaware and Hudson Railroad Born Employed at the D.L.&W. Company in the Locomotive shop Employed by Delaware and Hudson Railroad

  3. Childhood Scranton, PA • Born January 22, 1849 in Carbondale, Pennsylvania • Family • Sickness • School • Views

  4. Quote • “Seven is an age that entitled me to be reasonable; seven is the age of reason in some, while one hundred and seven would be about right for others.” - Powderly on his self described maturity.

  5. Jobs as a Teen Delaware and Hudson Railroad Car Examiner • Mechanist Trade • Locomotive Shop

  6. Marriage Death Unfortunately she died in 1901 • In 1872 Terence Powderly married Hanna Dever in 1872.

  7. Midlife Jobs • L.I.&C. employee • Dicson Company at Cliff Works employee • Mayor of Scranton

  8. Knights of Labor • Joined 1876 • Sworn in 1874 • Corresponding Secretary • Elected General Worthy Foreman of the Order in January of 1879

  9. Beliefs • Pro Labor • Eight Hour Work Day • Fair Pay • Sunday a non-work day because of the Sabbath

  10. Knights of Labor • Membership up from 80,000-700,000 • Controversy and Leadership Deterioration main causes for loss of power. • Grand Master Workman of the Knights of Labor until 1893. • 1894 Expelled from Knights of Labor • 1900 Reinstated as a member.

  11. Quote “We are breaking up the idea that money makes the man and not moral worth. We are breaking up the idea that might makes right... We are breaking up the practice of employing little children in factories, thus breeding a race of deformed, ignorant, and profligate?”

  12. Old Man Jobs • Member of the bar in Scranton, practiced before the Supreme Court of PA. • Got the right to practice before the Supreme Court of the U.S. • Commissioner General of Immigration, (removed by Theodore Roosevelt on July 2, 1902). • Special Representative of the Department of Commerce and Labor. • Chief of the Division of Information in the Bureau of Immigration

  13. Fun Fact • Powderly viewed immigrants negatively even though he worked for many different immigration companies.

  14. Remembered • Terence Vincent Powderly Died on June 24, 1924, in Washington, DC. • Powderly was able to influence the power of labor in the United States, and is currently featured in the Department of Labor’s Labor Hall of Fame.

  15. Bibliography •  "DSP History." Association of Retired Delaware State Police, Inc. Web. 19 Feb. 2010. <http://www.delawaretrooper.com/museum/DSP%20History.htm>. •  "Images of Taiwan Railways - David on Formosa." David on Formosa - a blog from Taipei, Taiwan. Web. 19 Feb. 2010. <http://blog.taiwan-guide.org/2007/10/images-of-taiwan-railways/>. • "Terence Powderly." The Pennsylvania Center for the Book. Web. 17 Feb. 2010. <http://www.pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Powderly__Terence.html>. •  "Terence V. Powderly." History. Web. 18 Feb. 2010. <http://www.history.umd.edu/Gompers/update/tvp.htm>. • "Terence Powderly." The Pennsylvania Center for the Book. Web. 17 Feb. 2010. <http://www.pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Powderly__Terence.html>.

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