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Author: Eve, Joseph

Biography:

Eve, Joseph (1760-1835: DAB)

The youngest son of Oswell and Ann (Moore) Eve, he was born in Philadelphia. His father was a merchant and sea-captain. About 1774, the family moved to the West Indies, settling in the Bahamas. In the 1780s Joseph Eve invented a kind of cotton gin which proved successful in the Islands and was patented in the US. He went to live in South Carolina, where he married Hannah Singeltary about 1800. Ten years later, they moved for the last time to "The Cottage," a house near Augusta GA built originally as a summer home for the extended family. Eve contributed poems to the local newspapers and continued his experiments, which included steam engines and gunpowder. The Eves' son Joseph Adams Eve became an eminent physician and medical writer, and one of the founders of the Medical College of Georgia. (DAB; friendsofcottagecemetery.com 22 Nov. 2018)

 

Books written (1):

Augusta [GA]: printed at the Chronicle and Advertiser office, 1823