Coxey, << KOK see, >> Jacob Sechler (1854-1951), organized Coxey’s Army, a group of unemployed men, during the depression of the 1890’s. He organized the “army” to attract national attention to his plan that the government create jobs through a road-improvement program. Coxey marched out of Massillon, Ohio, with 100 men and his infant son, Legal Tender Coxey. Coxey’s Army paraded in Washington, D.C., on May 1, 1894, with nearly 500 men. The demonstration collapsed when Coxey was arrested for walking on the Capitol lawn. In 1932, he was the Farmer-Labor Party candidate for president of the United States. Coxey was born on April 16, 1854, in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania. He died on May 18, 1951.
