Elizabeth Lizzie McGee

Lizzie McGee was born in Illinois in 1866. She worked as a stenographer and typist, but she also wrote short stories and poetry acted perform and performed comedy for the stage. Also an engineer who at the age of 26 invented a way for paper to be fed into the typewriter more easily. A big supporter of Henry George's approach to taxation that focused on land,. which would get their funding based on this. The game incorporated play money, deeds and properties for purchase. Players also had to pay taxes. And the path around the outcome of the board was actually kind of novel for his time, as Jake said.