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My father-in-law spent his late teens in the 1930s working on a farm in Jackson while living in the hayloft. He later left and became a Teamster organizer in Boston. One day I asked him about his education. He told me he left school in the fifth grade after he beat up his teacher. He was 16 years old. He was old for the sixth grade because he mostly worked in the mills in Somersworth and would hide in the girls’ room when inspectors came.

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