samuel fielden (1847–1922), socialist, anarchist and labour activist who was one of the eight convicted in the 1886 haymarket affair in chicago. he was sentenced to death along with six other defendants, but after writing to the illinois governor asking for clemency his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment in november 1887. he spent six years in prison before being pardoned, along with two other co-defendants, in 1893. he died in colorado in 1922 and is buried in la veta (pioneer) cemetery, huerfano county, colorado alongside his wife and two children.