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Sin, every day, takes out a patent for some new invention.

Edwin Percy Whipple

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Edwin Percy Whipple
Age: 67 †
Born: 1819
Born: March 8
Died: 1886
Died: June 16
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Journalist
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Gloucester
Massachusetts
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Sin

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