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In the spring of 1924, a young Protestant Englishmen by the name of Sir Baxter Cowell had built an empire producing some of the worlds finest cheeses in Wisconsin at his facility in Milwaukee. A Irish Catholic immigrant named James “Jimmy Boy” O’Rielly, who worked as a Cheese Meister in his hometown of Belfast had made his journey to the state of Vermont to pursue his dreams of starting his own cheese factory in the United States. O’Rielly had a dream of supplying fine cheeses to the impoverished Irish Catholic community, who were considered too low class for cheese consumption. After months of producing cheeses for his community, the wealthy found O’Rielly’s fine cheeses at a local market and traveled to his factory “Me Wee Cheese House”, in the city of Ludlow. Sir Cowell was informed of this and traveled to Ludlow as well to confront Jimmy Boy about what he considered a personal insult. He wanted Jimmy Boy to know that fine cheese was reserved for the upper class and Protestants, not for the catholic Irish community. When Cowell entered Me Wee cheese House, he was shocked to see the quality of product, but young O’Rielly had a cheese shredding operation that he had started for his community, to be able to add some flavor to their baked potatoes. This infuriated Cowell who promptly drew his pistol and challenged O’Rielly to a duel. Both men left the factory and walked to the center of town to duel in the eye of the Irish community. Unfortunately a young O’Rielly was mortally wounded during the duel, and Cowell sent a group of his workers to burn Jimmy Boys dream to the ground, melted cheese filled the streets and his community mourned the loss of their community hero. Days later, a group of armed men from Ludlow made the journey to Milwaukee Wisconsin to get the justice they deserved. On April 12, 1924 Sir Cowell was gunned down outside his Wisconsin factory, what was called “The Shot heard Around The New World”, 19 days of fierce and bloody battles between cheese companies ensued, and a year long cheese boycott in the late O’Rielly’s hometown.