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Margaret E. Knight was born in York, Maine on February 14, 1838, to Hannah Teal and James Knight. [4] As a little girl, “Mattie,” as her parents and friends nicknamed her, preferred to play with woodworking tools instead of dolls, stating that “the only things [she] wanted were a jack knife, a gimlet, and pieces of wood.” [5] She was known as a child for her kites and sleds.
Margaret E. Knight patented a machine in 1871 for the manufacture of flat-bottomed paper bags. [3] In 1892 the company relocated from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania to Hudson Falls, New York, where it had a paper mill. The Union Camp Corporation was formed by the 1956 merger of the Union Bag and Paper Company with Camp Manufacturing. [2]
Margaret Knight is the name of: Margaret E. Knight (1838–1914), American inventor; Margaret K. Knight (1903–1983), British psychologist and humanist; Margaret Rose Knight (1918–2006), First Lady of North Carolina
Between 1926 and 1936 Margaret worked as a librarian, information officer and editor for journal published by the National Institute of Industrial Psychology. She married her husband Arthur Rex Knight in 1936, then in 1938 she started working alongside him as an assistant lecturer in psychology at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. Ten years ...
The patterns were offered one size to a package until the 1980s, when slower sales made "multisized" patterns (which had several different sizes in the same package) more cost effective. At first, the pieces were not marked and no pattern layout was provided, leaving it up to the sewer to decide which piece was the collar, which the sleeve, etc.
Margaret E. Poague House is a historic home located near Lexington, Rockbridge County, Virginia. It was built about 1847, and is a two-story, three-bay Greek Revival style brick dwelling. It sits banked into a hillside and has a standing seam metal gable roof and interior end chimneys.
Margaret E. Bailey (December 25, 1915 – August 28, 2014) was a United States Army Nurse Corps colonel.She served in the Corps for 27 years, from July 1944 to July 1971, nine of which she served in France, Germany, and Japan.
Anna Maria Garthwaite was the daughter of the Reverend Ephraim Garthwaite (1647–1719) of Grantham, Lincolnshire, who was rector of nearby Harston, Leicestershire, at the time of her birth, [4] and his wife Rejoyce Hausted. [5]