1. Anna "Big Annie" Klobuchar Clemenc was an American labor activist.
11 Facts About Anna Clemenc
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Anna Clemenc is an inducted member of the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame.
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Anna Clemenc then began working with a local church giving aid to crippled miners and assisted her family financially by doing laundry.
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At age eighteen, Anna married a Slovene miner, Joseph Clemenc.
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In February 1913, Anna Clemenc spearheaded the formation of the Women's Auxiliary No 15 of the Western Federation of Miners in Calumet.
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Anna Clemenc was elected president of the auxiliary by December 1913.
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In January 1914, Anna Clemenc served a ten-day jail sentence for previously assaulting a non-striking miner.
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Anna Clemenc worked two jobs making hats, Little else is known of her later life.
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Anna Clemenc died of cancer in Chicago in 1956, at the age of 68.
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Contemporary accounts of Anna Clemenc referred to her as an "American Joan of Arc".
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Anna Clemenc was the first person nominated for the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame, was inducted in 1996, and is one of three women included on the Hall of Fame medallion.