At the time, women were credited with less than one percent of all patents. At the age of 26, Magie received a patent for her invention that made the typewriting process easier by allowing paper to go through the rollers more easily. She was also a short story and poetry writer, comedian, stage actress, feminist, and engineer. and Maryland area in the early 1880s, she worked as a stenographer and typist at the Dead Letter Office. Magie, a newspaper publisher and an abolitionist who accompanied Abraham Lincoln as he traveled around Illinois in the late 1850s debating politics with Stephen Douglas. Magie was born in Macomb, Illinois, in 1866 to Mary Jane (nee Ritchie) Magie and James K.
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