Eugene V. Debs was born on fifth of the November, 1855. His father Jean Daniel Debs small storekeeper was originally from the Colmar, Alsace and emigrated with his wife Marguerite Marie Debs to Terre Haute, Indiana. Eugene Victor was named for two writers Eugene Sue and Victor Hugo.

Eugene Debs was five years old when the Civil war has started. Gene had extraordinary memory and desire to learn, he became bored with the infinite repetition of studies in reading, writing, and ciphering, therefore Eugene has decided to leave the school in 1870 and to take job in railroad enginehouse. At that time, Eugene Victor, thin, tall, about six feet tall, with angular power boy, began cleaning oil from the trucks of freight engines . Everybody in Terre Haute liked Gene for his open-handed and genuine manner. By 1872 he was promoted to locomotive fireman in Terre Haute. In 1874 Eugene became a clerk in a wholesale grocery business, helping

In 1878 Gene become associate editor of the Locomotive Firemen's magazine and in 1880 he was promoted to the magazine's editor as well as treasurer and grand secretary of Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen. However, the union effort was not successful first few years.

In 1892 Debs left the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and next year he found the American Railway Union. The American Railway Union is the labor organization was welcome to all railroad workers. The first major strike against James J. Hill's Great Northern Railroad had been won on eighteen's day of struggle. But later that year, the union was destroyed in the Pullman Co. struggle. Debs was sent to jail for six months in contempt of court. In prison Eugene studied socialism and met socialist leaders.

In 1880 Debs was elected for the City Clerk in Terre Haute and in 1881 he ran for re-election. In spite of he was elected a City Clerk, Eugene worked every night in the Brotherhood. Debs was impressing his coworkers how he worked with an insistence On 1882 convention his contribution of Brotherhood member growth gave him new prestige. Eugene Victor needed money, when in January 1884 his second term as City Clerk expired. He was broke, he ate wha

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