Infamous
Last Words:
Philip
Danforth Armour, Sr. (1832–1901) was an American meatpacking industrialist who
founded the Chicago-based firm of Armour & Company. His company is known
for its attempt to suppress Upton Sinclair’s muckraking novel The Jungle.*
This novel describes the plight of Lithuanian immigrants working in the
dangerous and unsanitary conditions of the Chicago meatpacking industry
Last Words: “If this is Heaven, why are there so many Lithuanians here?”
* see
Earl Lee’s forward to The Jungle: The Uncensored Original Edition
(2003)
Infamous
Last Words: Philip Danforth Armour, Sr. (1832–1901)
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