Granville T. Woods known as the 'Black Edison' was born earlier and started his own company in Columbus, according to new research.
in the Driving Park neighborhood. Now, research has discovered some things about Woods that change what people thought they knew about him.
Woods died in New York City in 1910, and biographical materials have long listed his birth year as 1856. O'Donovan said research showed that Woods' mother, Martha Woods, started appearing again in Columbus city directories in 1866. They lived on East Mulberry Street, which is now Lafayette Street, which runs in between and parallel to Long and Spring streets Downtown. An 1871 directory showed Granville living on his own at another East Mulberry Street address.
But his last entry in 1881 said he worked at his own business in Columbus, the Granville Woods Company, described as an electrotype and stereotype foundry before heading to Cincinnati.Cincinnati likes to claim himBetsy Hedler, the Ohio History Service Corps program director for the Ohio History Connection, said she can see it being important for people here that Woods spent more of his life here than they knew.
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