Michael Schwab

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Michael Schwab was a German-American labor activist and anarchist who became one of the convicted Haymarket Affair defendants in 1886.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf German-American
anarchist
labor activist
person
associatedWith German-American anarchist community in Chicago
burialPlace Forest Home Cemetery, Forest Park, Illinois
surface form: Waldheim Cemetery, Forest Park, Illinois
causeOfDeath tuberculosis
coDefendant Adolph Fischer
Albert Parsons
August Spies
George Engel
Louis Lingg
Oscar Neebe
Samuel Fielden
commutedBy Illinois Governor Richard J. Oglesby
convictedOf conspiracy related to the Haymarket bombing
countryOfCitizenship Germany
United States of America
criminalPenalty death sentence
dateOfBirth 1853-08-09
dateOfCommutation 1887-11-10
dateOfConviction 1886-10-09
dateOfDeath 1898-06-29
dateOfPardon 1893-06-26
employer Arbeiter-Zeitung
ethnicOrigin German
immigratedTo United States of America
imprisonedAt Illinois State Penitentiary at Joliet
knownFor advocacy for workers' rights
languagesSpoken English
German
movement anarchism
labor movement
notableFor Haymarket affair
occupation editor
labor activist
typesetter
pardonedBy John Peter Altgeld
surface form: Illinois Governor John Peter Altgeld
participantIn Haymarket affair
penaltyModifiedTo life imprisonment
placeOfBirth Waldstadt, Grand Duchy of Baden
placeOfDeath Chicago, Illinois, United States
politicalAlignment radical labor
positionHeld assistant editor of Arbeiter-Zeitung
residence Chicago, Illinois, United States
yearOfImmigration 1879

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