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Old 01-13-2010, 03:00 PM
 
Location: mid south
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Carlos Castaneda? Candido Jacuzzi?
Nope
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Old 01-14-2010, 11:05 AM
 
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I operated my first profitable business at age 14, although it was a later creation that propelled me into history. Another useful piece of equipment was credited to me, despite the fact there were numerous others that had similar ideas at the same time. In later life I created even more devices that helped in the easement of pain I was suffering from the afliction that eventually took my life.
We need another hint.

Perhaps an era of history, a location or something else..this is incredibly vague.
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Old 01-14-2010, 11:46 AM
 
Location: Victoria TX
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Is this a person whose name (or the device) would be familiar to most of us?

Offhand, I cannot think of any life-threatening conditions whose pain can be eased by a device.
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Old 01-14-2010, 02:29 PM
 
Location: Vermont / NEK
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Eli Whitney
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Old 01-14-2010, 02:39 PM
 
Location: mid south
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Eli Whitney
Correct!

His illness was prostate cancer. His family never let anyone see his plans or ideas on what he used to easy the pain he suffered.
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Old 01-14-2010, 03:08 PM
 
Location: Vermont / NEK
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Don't ask me how I got that. My first though was John Deere.

NEW QUESTION

I was a retiree when my finances were wiped out in the stock market crash of 1929. So the missus convinced me to try a new endeavor which would require our moving to the opposite coast. Though I had worked in and done well in a similar field, I had no technical experience of the tasks that I would soon be performing. Apparently my results were satisfactory and in high demand as I was soon working among some the brightest in my new industry - though I was never considered to be on their level. I didn't dress like them, talk like them, look like them. But I can almost guarantee that everyone who is over 40 knows who I was. They might not remember my name, but I'm pretty sure they'd recognize me. When I finally did retire, I lived in and managed an apartment building until I was an old codger.

Who am I?
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Old 01-14-2010, 03:51 PM
 
Location: Victoria TX
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Gabby Hayes.
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Old 01-14-2010, 05:39 PM
 
Location: Vermont / NEK
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Dadgumit - that's our man!
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Old 01-14-2010, 05:47 PM
 
Location: Victoria TX
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At the age of 28, I became the first woman in the world to achieve a certain status, but nearly all of those who followed me are much better known. I was one of the first few people in my country to read and write when an alphabet was introduced, first having learned a foreign language. I was placed in charge of my country's literacy movement, and then moved up through the party to a high office. I was instrumental in giving up my country's sovereignty and merging with another. I died in my mid-90s, just a couple of years ago.
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Old 01-14-2010, 11:11 PM
 
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At the age of 28, I became the first woman in the world to achieve a certain status, but nearly all of those who followed me are much better known. I was one of the first few people in my country to read and write when an alphabet was introduced, first having learned a foreign language. I was placed in charge of my country's literacy movement, and then moved up through the party to a high office. I was instrumental in giving up my country's sovereignty and merging with another. I died in my mid-90s, just a couple of years ago.
Khertek Anchimaa-Toka of the Tuvinian's People Republic, the first non-hereditary female head of state in the modern world. Only took me about five hours of searching to find that one..
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