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Who was Hearl Maxwell?
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A brief biography of the life of Hearl Maxwell, the southeast Kansas miner who collected the information used in this project.
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Hearl Maxwell was born at his family’s homestead near Arcadia, Kansas in 1892. He would marry M. Elizabeth Hamilton, grade school teacher, on June 15, 1915 and the couple would go on and have four sons and three daughters. Maxwell was employed in the coal mining industry in the Arcadia and Mulberry area for many years. He took part in labor union affairs, serving at various times as an officer for a local unions and for District 14 of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA). Later on, Maxwell was self-employed as a truck driver for the coal industry and, during the Korean Conflict, worked in war production at the Parsons, Kansas, Army Ammunition Plant. After the Korean Conflict ended Maxwell and his family lived in Eureka, Kansas were he Maxwell was associated with the transportation division of the school system. After his retirement Maxwell and his family returned to Mulberry where he died at the age of 82 on March 6, 1974.
