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About Alexander Miles
- Alexander Miles (May 18, 1838 – May 7, 1918) was an African-American inventor was best known for being awarded as patent for an automatically opening and closing elevator doors.
- He was awarded the patent, U.S.
- Patent 371,207, on October 11, 1887. Alexander Miles was probably born in Pickaway County near the town of Circleville, Ohio, 1838 the son of Michael and Mary Miles.
- Miles may have resided in the nearby town of Chillicothe, Ohio, but subsequently moved to Waukesha, Wisconsin where he earned a living as a barber.
- After a move to Winona, Minnesota, he met and married Mrs.
- Candace J.
- (Shedd) Dunlap, of La Porte, Indiana, a widow with two children who was four years his senior and a native of New York.
- Together they had a daughter, born in 1876, named Grace.
- Shortly after her birth, the family relocated to Duluth, Minnesota.The family moved to Montgomery, Alabama by 1889, where Miles was listed in the city directories as a laborer However, by 1900, he listed himself as an insurance agent.
- Around 1903, they moved again, to Seattle, Washington where he worked in a hotel as a barber.
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