1. George Engel's mother died when he was 12, leaving him an orphan.
11 Facts About George Engel
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George Engel lived for a short time with a foster family, but at the age of 14 was forced to look for work.
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George Engel was apprenticed to a shoemaker, but was unable to afford the dues.
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George Engel travelled to Frankfurt and finally found work as a painter's apprentice.
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George Engel travelled around Germany working, and in 1868 opened a business of his own.
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George Engel married the same year, but found that the economic conditions in Germany made survival difficult, and so decided to follow his boyhood dream of emigrating to the United States.
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George Engel left Germany in 1872, arriving first in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in January 1873, where he worked in a sugar refinery.
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In 1878, a crackdown on socialist organizations led to the dissolution of the IWA, but George Engel was instrumental in forming another organization, the Socialistic Labor Party of North America, and finally, in 1882 he joined the new International Working People's Association.
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George Engel was convicted and was sentenced to be hanged.
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George Engel was hanged with three others of the condemned on November 11,1887.
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George Engel was buried, in a plot marked since 1893 by the Haymarket Martyrs Monument, in the Waldheim Cemetery in Forest Park, Illinois.