Emma F. Langdon, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetEmma F. Langdon
American labor leader
Date of Birth: 29-Sep-1875
Place of Birth: Tennessee, United States
Date of Death: 30-Nov-1937
Profession: trade unionist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About Emma F. Langdon
- Emma Florence Langdon was born in Tennessee in 1875.
- She moved to the gold mining district of Cripple Creek, Colorado in 1903.
- She was an apprentice linotype operator who wrote that "women's place should be in the home and not in public life." In spite of such sentiments, she played a very visible role during some very turbulent times.
- She and her husband were working at the Victor Daily Record, a pro-union newspaper, during a 1903-04 strike of miners in the Cripple Creek gold fields that erupted into the Colorado Labor Wars.
- Along with many other union sympathizers, Langdon was forced to leave in 1904, and moved to Denver.
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