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led to draw wire for his own use. Afterseveral months work his machine was completed. Withthe exception of Mrs. Greene and a neighbor named Miller, I50 SOME SUCCESSFUL AMERICANS no one knew of his work. Mr. Miller, who afterwards mar-ried Mrs. Greene, was a native of Connecticut and, likeWhitney, a… … Early Cotton Gin be present at a test of its work. The experiment was acomplete success. The machine would do the work ofhundreds of men, and through its use cotton raising becameimmensely profitable. The value of this invention, espe-cially to the South, can hardly be estimated. No otherinvention,…
