OE THOMAS ALVA EDISON - National Academy of Sciences

THOMAS ALVA EDISON Birth and Parentage Thomas Alva Edison, probably the greatest inventor that America has produced, was born at Milan, Ohio, on February nth, 1847. According to family records, the paternal ancestor of the Edisons landed in New Jersey, from Holland, about the year 1730. The family on Edison's mother's side, the Elliotts, was ................
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