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The Life of Elisha Unice
Elisha and eunis foot were active members of the women's rights movement in the united states. Both applied for and were granted multiple patents, including a device to regulate draft on stoves. A dispute over this patent led all hway to the us Supreme court in sillsby versus foot. Elisha was the commissioner of patents for a little less than a year until april 69 when she died.
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