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The younger Eli was famous during his lifetime and after his death by the name "Eli Whitney", though he was technically Eli Whitney Jr. His son, born in 1820, also named Eli, was known during his lifetime and afterward by the name "Eli Whitney Jr." Whitney's mother, Elizabeth Fay, died in 1777, when he was 11. [2]
Blake was born on January 27, 1795, in Westborough in Worcester County, Massachusetts.He was the son of Elihu Blake and Elizabeth Fay (née Whitney) Blake.His older brother, also named Elihu Blake, was the father of William Phipps Blake. [1]
The Whitney family is a prominent American family descended from non-Norman English immigrant John Whitney (1592–1673), who left London in 1635 and settled in Watertown, Massachusetts. The historic family mansion in Watertown, known as The Elms, was built for the Whitneys in 1710. [ 1 ]
Blake was born on April 20, 1836, in New Haven, Connecticut. He was one of twelve children born to Eli Whitney Blake and Eliza Maria (née O'Brien) Blake. [2] Through his mother, he was a descendant of the Rev. James Pierpont, one of the co-founders of Yale. [3] Blake graduated from Yale in 1857, after which he spent a year at Sheffield ...
Eli Whitney: 1765 – 1825 American inventor and creator of the cotton gin [280] Peter Williams: 1934 – 2015 New Zealand barrister and penal reform advocate (died at the age of 80 after battling prostate cancer for over a decade before his death) [281] Ludwig Wittgenstein: 1889 – 1951 Austrian philosopher [282] Earl Woods: 1933 – 2006
Eli Whitney then went and invented inter-changable parts for weapons with assembly lines and allowed the North to quickly arm hundreds of thousands of men with which to crush that would-be empire ...
January 8 – Eli Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin and milling machine (born 1765) March 1 – John Haggin, "Indian fighter" and early settler of Kentucky (born 0420) March 4 – Hercules Mulligan, tailor and spy during the American Revolutionary War (born 1740) March 4 – Raphaelle Peale, still-life painter (born 1774)
Eli Whitney (1765–1825) was an American inventor and entrepreneur, best known for his cotton gin and his pursuit of interchangeability in firearms manufacture. Eli Whitney may also refer to: Eli Whitney Jr. (1820–1825), son of the inventor, maker of the Colt Walker revolver