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1905 Letterhead GEORGE EDWARD GATLING San Augustine TEXAS lawyer ATTORNEY letter For Sale
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1905 Letterhead GEORGE EDWARD GATLING San Augustine TEXAS lawyer ATTORNEY letter:
$262.50
PLEASE READBEFORE BUYING: I sell ORIGINAL itemsONLY and NOT ANY reproductions. This sale is forONE HISTORICALLY INTERESTING! advertisingLETTERHEAD (approximately 8 1/2" X 11" in size). Itis from GEORGE E. ( EDWARD ) GATLiNG attorney at law..and famous inventor of the Gatling gung! Location noted is in SAN AUGUSTiNE, TEXA$ in the year 1905 in San Augustine County. This letteris hand written and signed by GEO. E. GATLiNG . Gatling was born in Hertford County, North Carolina, in 1818. At the age of 21, Gatling created a screw propeller for steamboats, without realizing that one had been patented just months beforehand by John Ericsson. While living in North Carolina, he worked in the county clerkâs office, taught school briefly, and became a merchant. At the age of 36, Gatling moved to St. Louis, Missouri, where he worked in a dry goods store and invented a rice-sowing machine and a wheat drill (a machine to aid planting wheat). The introduction of these machines did much to revolutionize the agricultural system in the country. After an attack of smallpox, Gatling became interested in medicine. He graduated from the Ohio Medical College in 1850 with an MD. Although he had his MD, he never practiced; he was more interested in a career as an inventor . At the outbreak of the Civil War, Gatling was living in Indianapolis, Indiana. There he devoted himself to the perfection of firearms. In 1861, the same year the war started, he invented the Gatling gun. A year later, he founded the Gatling Gun Company. By the early 1850s, Gatling was successful enough in business to offer marriage to Jemima Sanders, 19 years younger than Gatling and the daughter of a prominent Indianapolis physician. They married on October 25, 1854. Her younger sister Zerelda was married to David Wallace, the governor of Indiana. An active member of his Masonic lodge, he was member of Center Lodge No. 23. Later in his life, Gatling patented inventions to improve toilets, bicycles, steam-cleaning of raw wool, pneumatic power, and many other fields. He was elected as the first president of the American Association of Inventors and Manufacturers in 1891, serving for six years. Although still quite wealthy at the time of his death, he made and lost several fortunes by his investments. In his final years, Gatling moved back to St. Louis, Missouri, to form a new company for manufacturing his steam plows, or tractors. While in New York City to visit his daughter and to talk with his patent agency, Gatling died at his daughter's home on February 26, 1903. He is interred at the Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis, Indiana. His contributions were commemorated by the U.S. Navy during World War II when the Fletcher Class Destroyer DD-671 was christened the USS Gatling. CONDITION:It has normal letter folds,minor flaws andis in verycondition. The " Item" thing is just a loose piece of paper that is not attached to the letter. If you have any questions, please contact me. TERMS & CONDITIONS: Payment to upon purchase.Free shipping to the continental U.S.only. When you receive your item, PLEASE leave response (I will see it)and I will reciprocate response at that time. PLEASE view my other store items forrelated ephemera, antique documents, and paper collectibles at TEXASJOHNNYBOY EPHEMERA. THANK YOU VERY MUCH and GOOD LUCK TO YOU.
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