Jan E. Matzeliger (September
15, 1852 – August 24, 1889) was an African American/Dutch Guyana. Jan’s
father was a Dutch engineer, very wealthy and very well educated and his mother
was a black Surinamese slave of his father. Jan had some inserts in mechanics
while living in had native his country of Africa. His efforts for inventing the
shoe-lasting machine did began until he moved to the United States. Jan worked
in a machinery shop after that, he moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at 19
after working as a sailor.
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