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Biography of Catherine Littlefield Greene
Name: Catherine Littlefield Greene
Birth Date: February 17, 1755
Death Date: July 20, 1814
Place of Birth: Block Island, Rhode Island, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Female
Occupations: inventor, plantation owner
Catherine Littlefield Greene
Catherine Littlefield Greene (1755-1814) is credited with aiding Eli Whitney in his invention of the cotton gin--an invention that revolutionized the plantation economy of the American south. Her husband, Nathanael Greene, was a decorated army officer who served with distinction during the Revolutionary War.A question that has appeared on history tests in public schools around the United States for over a century is "Who invented the Cotton Gin?" While most would answer "Eli Whitney," this answer may not be correct. In an 1883 pamphlet titled "Woman as Inventor," author and proto-feminist, Matilda Joslyn Gage, first put forth the contention that it was not, in fact, Whitney who invented the machine. The person who should receive credit for the cotton gin, explained Gage, was a woman: Catherine Littlefield Greene.Wife of a Revolutionary HeroCatherine Littlefield--known to family and friends as Kitty or Caty--was born on Block Island, Rhode Island, …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…Miller. He had grown in Greene's esteem while serving as both her plantation manager and a tutor to her younger children. Eventually Miller was elected to the state Senate. The marriage would last until his death in 1802. After her marriage Catherine left Mulberry Grove and moved to Miller's home on Cumberland Island, where she died on July 20, 1814, at the age of fifty-nine. As her surviving children were known to remark, there was irony in the fact that Catherine Greene, who disliked sea voyages, ended her life as it had begun: on a sea island. Further Reading Greene, George Washington II, Life of Nathanael Greene, (3 vols., 1867-1871.Ogilvie, Marilyn Bailey, Women in Science: Antiquity through the Nineteenth Century, MIT Press, 1986.Stegman, John F., and Janet A. Stegman, Caty: A Biography of Catharine Littlefield Greene, University of Georgia Press, 1985.Greene's of the World: Nineteenth Century, http:// www.uftree.com/UFT/WebPages/plgreene/ (November 10, 2001).
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