Catherine Greene
1755-1814
American plantation owner who financed Eli Whitney's cotton gin. Greene invited Whitney to Mulberry Grove, her Savannah, Georgia, home, and suggested that he invent a...
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Catharine Littlefield Greene
Born February 17, 1755 (Block Island, Rhode Island)
Died July 20, 1814 (Cumberland Island, Georgia)
Businesswoman
Catharine "Caty" Littlefield Greene witness...
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Catherine Littlefield Greene (1755-1814) is credited with aiding Eli Whitney in his invention of the cotton gin--an invention that revolutionized the plantation economy of the American south. Her husb...
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