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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]
The feature was introduced on March 8, 2018, for International Women's Day, when the Times published fifteen obituaries of such "overlooked" women, and has since become a weekly feature in the paper. The project was created by Amisha Padnani, the digital editor of the obituaries desk, [1] and Jessica Bennett, the paper's gender editor. In its ...
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
Margaret Knight became known as "the female Edison," “queen of paper bags,” and the “mother of the grocery bag.” On a plaque in Framingham, they notice Margaret Knight as "first woman awarded at U.S. patent" and holder of eighty seven U.S. patents.
Margaret E. Jacobs was born into the Akwesasne Mohawk tribe on September 10, 1986, in Ogdensburg, New York. Her family was "hands on" and she began to make things at an early age. [ 5 ] She attended the Ogdensburg Free Academy , from which she graduated in 2004.
Margaret E. Ingalls (née Cook; September 16, 1939 – January 9, 2018), [1] [2] known by her pen name Nema Andahadna or simply Nema, was an American occultist, ceremonial magician, and writer known for her magical writings about the Ma'atian current, best known for her work Liber Pennae Praenumbra and as co-founder of the Horus-Maat Lodge.
Hilda Elsie Marguerite Patten, CBE (née Brown; 4 November 1915 – 4 June 2015), was a British home economist, food writer and broadcaster.She was one of the earliest celebrity chefs (a term that she disliked at first) who became known during World War II thanks to her programme on BBC Radio, where she shared recipes that could work within the limits imposed by war rationing.