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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;
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.
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 ...
Sangster's papers are housed in the Margaret E. Sangster Jr. Collection at Brooklyn College. Material there contains a limited amount of information about her personal life. Most of the collection consists of scripts that she wrote for soap operas. Other contents include her poems, short stories, and material related to proposed programs. [1]
Margaret E. Winslow (1836-1936) was an American activist, newspaper editor, and author of several temperance books. She served at two separate times, and during the longest period of any editor-in-chief of Our Union , the national organ of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU). [ 1 ]
Hays created post cards [1] and paper dolls, [4] and while her sister Grace Drayton is best known for creating the Campbells Soup kids, Hays created jingles for Campbells. [2] Hays best known strip is Jennie and Jack, also the Little Dog Jap, [5] [6] a strip that was syndicated in 1908. Along with writing comic strips and children's illustrated ...