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Eli Whitney Jr. Dear audience, I had a very different life than you. When I was a child I had a MASSIVE interest in building things. I made nails for farmers near me when I was about fourteen and made a violin at twelve.I just loved to take things apart and put them back together.Like when I took my dad's watch apart and put it together again perfectly. Speaking about my childhood, I was born December 8, 1765 in Westborough, Massachusetts. My father’s name was Eli Whitney Sr. My mother’s name was Elizabeth. Now, onto my adulthood. I went to Yale wanting to study law, but I didn’t have enough money, so I studied to be a teacher. Then, I married a woman named Henrietta Edwards. Next I got an offer to go to South Carolina for a teaching job, but I met someone who convinced me to go to Georgia because he needed technical help on his plantation, so he hired me to help him on the farm. His name was Phineas Miller. He was a friend who graduated at Yale also. Later, he would be my inventing partner for the cotton gin. That’s pretty much all for my adulthood.

Now, for what I’m famous for. My invention. My invention was something called the cotton gin. It separated cotton from its seeds, which would have taken hours of work. But my invention could separate just as much in only a third of the time. The problem with my invention is that it’s easy to copy, so I nearly lost all of my money in court. Phineas and I couldn’t manufacture enough for the demand of the gins so we just stopped making them.

I didn’t invent this but I had a company that made and sold muskets. I got a contract from the government saying I needed to build 10,000-15,000 muskets to help with the war against England.

I died from cancer on January 8, 1825.