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Judy Reed

CTL-E-4793 · Person · other · 1880s

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Inventor of a dough-kneading machine patented in 1880; one of the first African American women to receive a U.S. patent, predating Sarah E. Goode's 1885 patent.

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RELP111 supporting: 'first patentee' disambiguation for focal CTL-E-1095 (conflict CTL-CFL-002563).

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