Whittemore, Amos
mechanic, inventor, was born April 19, 1759, in Cambridge, Mass. He invented a machine for puncturing the leather and setting the wires of cotton and wool cards, which patent he sold for $150,000. The leading features of the invention were suggested by a dream. He died March 27,, 1828, in West Cambridge, Mass.
WHITTEMORE, BENJAMIN FRANK, clergyman, journalist, state senator, congressman, was born in 1824 in Malden, Mass. After the war he settled himself in South Carolina, and identified himself with the educational interests of the state. He was the founder and editor of the New Era, published at Darlington, S. C. He was also a member of the state senate. He was elected a representative from South Carolina to the fortieth congress; and was re-elected to the forty-first congress as a republican.