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Warner's grave at Lake Forest Cemetery. He was born in Lake Forest, Illinois, and lived in La Jolla, California, where he worked as an investment counselor. [1] He was the son of Ezra J. Warner, Jr. and grandson of Ezra J Warner, [2] who were wholesale grocery business executives in Chicago, Illinois. [3]
Ezra J. Warner of Waterbury, Connecticut was an American inventor, who patented his design of a can opener in 1858. A crudely shaped bayonet and sickle combo, his design was widely accepted by the U.S. military during the period of the American Civil War .
Ezra Warner may refer to: Ezra Warner (inventor), American inventor of the first can opener in 1858; Ezra J. Warner (historian) (1910 – 1974), American Civil War ...
The twist-key can-opener was patented by J. Osterhoudt in 1866. [7] There still was no general-purpose can-opener, thus each can came with a spot-welded or soldered-on twist-key can-opener which snapped off after fatiguing the metal by bending at a thin region. Each food-type had its own can-type, and came with its own can-opener-type.
Historian Ezra J. Warner wrote that McKinstry "found ample opportunity to line his own pockets. [2] Historian Stewart Sifakis wrote: "While there may well have been other crooks in the uniform of a Union general, New York-born Justus McKinstry was the only one convicted and dismissed during the Civil War."
Warner Bros. has high hopes for “The Flash.” The upcoming comic book adventure, which completed production in 2021 and is scheduled to debut in theaters in 2023, has been extraordinarily well ...
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As noted, while General Wright, Ezra J. Warner and other historians profess to use these criteria to identify Civil War generals, in fact they have inconsistently included about 25 names of officers for each army who do not actually meet the criteria and it is now difficult not to take note of at least these extra officers in lists of Civil War ...