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| | Charles Amidon biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) |
 | | Charles Henry Amidon was the son of David Amidon, a shoemaker from Reedsboro, Vermont, who moved his family to Monroe, in Franklin County, Massachusetts, in the late 1820s. |
 | | Charles, the third of nine children, was born there on the 28th of May in 1830. |
 | | Gunn and Amidon modified it, replacing the Lash wringer with Amidon's, and marketed the result as the "The Washing-ton Machine." Advertised as "the cheapest, simplest and most perfect machine in the world," much was made of the fact that the unit could be trusted to be gentle on clothing. |
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