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Harry McShane - 134 B'way [I,e, Broadway] -Cin. O. - 16 yrs. of age on June 29, 1908. Had his left arm pulled off
near shoulder, and right leg broken through kneecap, by being caught on belt of a machine in Spring factory in May 1908. Had
been working in factory more than 2 yrs. Was on his feet for first time after the accident, the day this photo was taken.
No attention was paid by employers to the boy either at hospital or home according to statement of boy's father. No com- pensation.
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio, 1908.
"No attention was paid by employers to the boy either at hospital or home according
to statement of boy's father. No compensation."
Harry McShane's father was Peter McShane. He was a self-employed
house painter and decorator. I can imagine the mixture of sadness and anger he must have felt about his son's accident.
Of course, it was hardly uncommon in those days for workers to face dangerous conditions, and for employers to just cast off
injured employees without a second thought.
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| Factory, where Harry McShane was injured. 312 Yeatman Alley, Cincinnati (Lewis Hine caption). |
The C.L. Greeno Co. was a successful furniture manufacturer, later establishing
a branch in Oakland, California. Owner Charles L. Greeno was born in Pennsylvania about 1839, and died in Florida in
1913.
Here is a newspaper article I found about Mr. Greeno:
Miss Belle Greeno of this place was very much surprised as well as delighted when
she received through the mail Thursday of last week a check for $500 and a letter of explanation stating that the amount had
been left here by her uncle, Col. C. L. Greeno, a wealthy furniture manufacturer of Cincinnati, Ohio, who
died about a month ago at his winter home in Florida. Col. Greeno was about 70 years of age, and was a veteran of the Union
army, being in the same company as the late President McKinley, and was a close personal friend of the latter. He had visited
his relatives here on several occasions, his last visit being something over a year ago, when he made a special trip to see
to the erection of a monument at the graves of his parents in old Salem churchyard northwest of town. -February
14, 1913, Higbee News, Howard County, Missouri
Perhaps Mr. Greeno could have left a tiny bit of his fortune to Harry. Click link below for more about Harry.
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