Michael Schwab (August 9, 1853 – June 29, 1898) was a German-American labor organizer and one of the defendants in the Haymarket Square incident.
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During his last years Schwab abandoned anarchist doctrine and embraced international socialism, speaking and writing in opposition to the notion of revolution by force.[1]
Schwab had intestinal and pulmonary issues during his last years, for which he was hospitalized at the Alexian Brothers' Hospital in Chicago in November 1897.[1] He remained there for the last seven months of his life, undergoing an operation in the middle of May 1898.[1] Schwab died from his chronic internal ailment on June 29, 1898.[1] The Social Turnverein of Chicago arranged his funeral and announced plans for his immediate cremation.[1] He was cremated on July 6 and his widow received his ashes.[2]
Schwab was married to the sister of Rudolph Schnaubelt (1863–1901), a Chicago anarchist believed by many to have actually thrown the bomb at Haymarket.[1] Together the couple had three children.[1]
See also
editFootnotes
edit- ^ a b c d e f g "M. Schwab, the Anarchist, Passes Away," Chicago Dispatch, June 29, 1898, unspecified page. Copy preserved in The Papers of Eugene V. Debs, 1834-1945 microfilm edition, reel 9.
- ^ "M. Schwab's Body Burned: Ashes of Dead Socialist Leader Will be Disposed of By His Wife: Under No Circumstances Will They Be Buried at Waldheim Cemetery," Chicago Dispatch, July 6, 1898, unspecified page. Copy preserved in The Papers of Eugene V. Debs, 1834-1945 microfilm edition, reel 9.
Further reading
edit- Testimony of Michael Schwab, Illinois v. August Spies, Trial Transcript, Vol. N, p. 1-17, August 9, 1886.
- Meet the Haymarket Defendants.
External links
edit- Chicago History: Michael Schwab
- John P. Altgeld, "Reasons for Pardoning Fielden, Neebe and Schwab," Chicago Historical Society, www.chicagohs.org/