Iles, George, 1852-1942 · New York, H. Holt and company · leaf 111
ELI WHITNEY Eli Whitney, famous as the inventor of the cotton gin,was born on December 8, 1765, in Westboro, a pleasant lit-tle village of Massachusetts, sixteen miles east of Worcester.The house of his nativity was destroyed long ago; its site,on Johnson Road, bears a bronze tablet as a…
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