Mary Dixon Kies Totally Explained

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Mary Dixon Kies (March 21, 1752 – 1837) was an early 19th-century American who was the first recipient of a patent granted to a woman by the Patent Office, on May 5 1809, which was for a technique of weaving straw with silk and thread.

Biography

Her father was John Dixon born in 1679 in Ulster. Her mother was Janet Kennedy who was the third wife of John Dixon. They had married in Voluntown, Connecticut on August 7, 1741. John Dixon was a farmer. Mary Dixon was born in Killingly, Connecticut on March 21, 1752. She married Isaac Pike I, and had a son Isaac Pike II. After his death she married John Kies (1750-1813) who died on August 18, 1813 at age 63. She then went to live with her son, Daniel Kies, in Brooklyn, New York where she died at age 85 in 1837.
Straw weaving was an economically vital industry in America during the 1800s. Women wore straw hats for working in the field. The Patent Act of 1790 opened the door for anyone, male or female, to protect his or her invention with a patent. However, because in many states women couldn't legally own property independent of their husbands, many women inventors didn't bother to patent their new inventions. Mary Kies broke that pattern on May 5, 1809.
Kies was unsuccessful in her attempts to profit from her invention, however, and died penniless in Brooklyn, New York in 1837. Further Information

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