Tom Tom Bird

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Display Name: 
Tom Tom Bird
Sort Name: 
Bird, Tom Tom
AKA: 
Tom-Tom
Race: 
Black
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Free Black
Rank: 
Minor
Vitality: 
Alive
Occupation: 
Production
Specific Job: 
Power Plant Fireman
Date of Birth: 
Wednesday, January 1, 1851 to Saturday, December 31, 1853
Biography: 

Tom Tom Bird is "a big bull of a man weighing two hundred pounds and sixty years old but looking about forty and married about two years ago to his fourth wife: a young woman whom he kept with the strict jealous seclusion of a Turk in a cabin about two miles down the railroad track from the plant" (16). For twenty years he has worked at the power plant in Jefferson as the day fireman - that is, the kind of fireman who shovels coal to keep the plant's fire going.

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Individual
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