biography
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Butterick, Ebenezer
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| male
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| lived:
| (1826–1903)
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| biography:
| Inventor and fashion business executive, born in Sterling, Massachusetts, USA. Working as a tailor, with his wife, Ellen Augusta Pollard Butterick (d.1871), he invented paper clothing patterns for home sewers. They began selling patterns (1863) and he formed E Butterick & Company, New York (1867–81), established European branches, and founded fashion magazines. He was later secretary of the reorganized Butterick Publishing Co (1881–94). |
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