When Joseph Powell Chisham was born on 8 October 1884, in El Dorado, Butler, Kansas, United States, his father, Napoleon Bonaparte Chisham, was 35 and his mother, Mary Harriet Cornelia Johnson, was 31. He married Ora Anna Rusk on 8 December 1909, in Fredonia, Wilson, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Verdigris Township, Wilson, Kansas, United States in 1910 and Fall River Township, Wilson, Kansas, United States for about 20 years. He died on 20 April 1963, in Fredonia, Wilson, Kansas, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Weakley Cemetery, New Albany, Wilson, Kansas, United States.
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The largest union group in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. It still exists today but merged with The Congress of Industrial Organization.
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