| LC control no. | n 85243770 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Matzeliger, Jan Ernst, 1852-1889 |
| Variant(s) | Matzeliger, Jan Ernst, -1889 Matzeliger, Jan Ernst, d. 1889 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 18520915 |
| Death date | 18890824 |
| Place of birth | Paramaribo (Suriname) |
| Place of death | Lynn (Mass.) |
| Affiliation | Christian Endeavor Society (Lynn, Mass.) |
| Profession or occupation | Sailors Inventors |
| Found in | Mitchell, B. Shoes for everyone, c1986: CIP t.p. (Jan Matzeliger) galley (Jan Ernst Matzeliger; inventor, shoe lasting-machine; d. 8/24/1889, he was 37 yrs. old) NUCMC data from Moorland-Spingarn Research Center for Jan Ernst Matzeliger collection, ca. 1889-1955 (Jan Ernst Matzeliger; born Sept. 15, 1852 in Paramaribo, Surinam (Dutch Guiana), the son of a Dutch engineer and a black woman of Surinam; 1873: landed in Philadelphia; 1877: moved to Lynn, Mass., and worked in a shoe factory; 1889 Aug. 24: died in Lynn, Mass. African American National Biography, accessed February 23, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Matzeliger, Jan Ernst; inventor; born 15 September, 1852 in Paramaribo, Suriname; sailor, East Indian merchant ship (1871-1873); operator of McKay sole-stitching machine, Lynn, Massachusetts, United States (1877), employed in a shoe factory; received Patent No. 274,207 Lasting Machine (1883); ran a shoe factory (1885); was accepted into Christian Endeavor Society (1884); was awarded four related patents (1888-1891), three of five patents were granted posthumously; died 24 August, 1889 in Lynn, Massachusetts, United States) |
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