| Roy Rogers: King of the Cowboys | |  Roy Rogers was an American singer, actor, and television host who became one of the most popular Western stars of his era, known as the "King of the Cowboys."
Rogers was born Leonard Slye in Cincinnati Ohio. The family lived in a tenement on 2nd Street, where Riverfront Stadium was later constructed (Rogers later joked that he was born at second base). Dissatisfied with his job and city life, Rogers' father built a 12-by-50-foot (3.7 m × 15.2 m) houseboat from salvage lumber, and in July 1912, the Slye family traveled down the Scioto River towards Portsmouth.
After a successful career as a singer, Roy Rogers made his film debut in 1935. Rogers played many leading roles in productions filmed the Alabama Hills: Hands Across the Border, Man from Music Mountain (1943), Saga of Death Valley (1939), Song of Texas (1943), Under Western Stars (1938), and Utah (1945). On February 8, 1960, Rogers was honored with three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Motion Pictures at 1752 Vine Street, for Television at 1620 Vine Street, and for Radio at 1733 Vine Street.
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| | | | | | | | Eugene V. Debs: America's Socialist | |  One of America's first prominent socialists, Eugene Victor "Gene" Debs was also a political activist, trade unionist, and one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).
Born at 457 North Fourth Street in Terre Haute, Indiana, his boyhood home was the Debs Grocery on the the northeast corner of Eleventh Street and Wabash Avenue. He attended the city public schools until the age of 14, when he dropped out to work as a painter for the railroad yards. He became a fireman on the railroad in 1870, but he left the railroad in 1874, and was employed as a billing clerk at the Hulman & Cox wholesale grocery firm. He became active in the railroad brotherhoods, served as city clerk, and as an Indiana General Assembly representative.
In 1893, Debs organized the American Railway Union, the first industrial union in the United States. He ran as a Socialist candidate for the office of President of the United States in 1900, 1904, 1908, 1912, and 1920. His campaigns called for unheard-for reforms at the time, such as social security, an eight-hour work day, workmen's compensation, and sick leave, all which are staples in American life today.
His last campaign was run from prison, where he was serving time for an anti-war speech under the 1917 wartime espionage act. He returned home in 1921, after President Warren G. Harding commuted his sentence to time served.
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| | | | | | | | Ida Tarbell: Madame Muckraker | | Ida Tarbell was one of America's most famous journalists and muckrakers. Born in Erie County, she moved with her parents to the oil region around Titusville, Crawford County, at an early age. Growing up in the shadows of countless derricks, she witnessed both the good and the bad of an industry that affected so many lives. She listened to her father, who was an oil tank manufacturer, speak openly against the Standard Oil Company for its unfair practices.
Tarbell worked as a teacher for a few years in Ohio before her writing career began with The Chautauquan, a Meadville magazine. But the true turning point in Tarbell's career occurred in 1894, when S.S. McClure asked her to write material for McClure's Magazine on John D. Rockefeller of Standard Oil. 
As told in Misfortune on Cleveland's Millionaire's Row, over a five-year period, she applied research skills to uncover what she could to produce articles acknowledging Rockefeller's brilliance and ruthlessness. Business espionage, conspiracy against competitors and manipulation of railroad rates to benefit the trust he had created resulted in Rockefeller becoming the most celebrated businessman to be exposed by investigative reporting.
What Tarbell had written on Standard Oil led the U.S. Supreme Court in 1911 to rule that the company had violated the Sherman Antitrust Act and had to be dissolved. This was a personal victory for her, perhaps to match the severity of the damage to her father and other oilmen. Yet a larger victory belonged to a vigilant press that continued to expose misbehavior by America's leading industrialists.
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| | | | | | | | Spencer W. Kimball: LDS Church President | |  Spencer Woolley Kimball was an American business, civic, and religious leader, and was the twelfth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Kimball was born in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, but spent most of his early life in Thatcher, Arizona, where his father, Andrew Kimball, farmed and served as the area's stake president.
Early in his time as an apostle, Kimball was directed by church president George Albert Smith to spend extra time in religious and humanitarian work with Native Americans, which Kimball did throughout his life. He initiated the Indian Placement Program, which helped many Native American students gain education in the 1960s and 1970s while they stayed with LDS foster families, and also advocated against racism and prejudice within his own Mormon community.
In late 1973, following the sudden death of church president Harold B. Lee, Kimball became the twelfth president of the LDS Church, a position he held until his death in 1985. Kimball removed the 1978 restriction on church members of black African descent being ordained to the priesthood or receiving temple ordinances.
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