1905 Letterhead GEORGE EDWARD GATLING San Augustine TEXAS lawyer ATTORNEY letter

Description

PLEASE READ BEFORE BUYING:
I sell ORIGINAL items ONLY and NOT ANY reproductions.
This
sale is for ONE
advertising
LETTERHEAD
(approximately
8 1/2" X 11"
in size).
It is
from
GE
O
RGE E. ( ED
W
ARD ) 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 letter is
hand written and signed
by
GE
O
. 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 clerk’s 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
i
nvented 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.
I
n 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 and is in very condition.
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