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About Charles McDermott (inventor)
- Charles M.
- McDermott (September 22, 1808 – October 13, 1884) was an American physician and inventor.
- He is claimed to have been granted the first known American patent for a non-powered airplane, in 1872.McDermott, the son of Pulling and Emily (Ozan) McDermott, was born in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, in 1808 and from St.
- Francisville, in that parish, entered Yale College in 1825 and graduated in 1828.
- He adopted medicine as a profession, and after practicing in his native parish, removed to Chicot County, in southeastern Arkansas, in 1842, where he made a considerable fortune as a cotton-planter, but lost it all by the American Civil War, in which also some of his sons were killed.
- He resented bitterly to the last the abolition of slavery and the triumph of the North. He made several inventions (such as a flying machine, a cotton-picker, and a hollow wedge) which were patented.
- He was an elder in the Presbyterian Church.
- He died of heart-disease, at his home, Derrnott Station, Chicot County, Arkansas, October 13, 1884, in his 76th year. He married in St.
- Francisville, in 1833, Hittie S.
- Smith, by whom he had sixteen children, seven of whom survived him.
- His wife died in 1880. This article incorporates public domain material from the 1886 Yale Obituary Record.
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