It is often discussed whether or not talent is inborn or if it is acquired through practice. Can anyone possess talent, or do you have to be what they call âa naturalâ? It is said that, some talents confined to an individual such as sports and music are innate.
After his four years of college he graduated from Yale and after his graduation in 1792, he went to Georgia. There he planned to teach and study law. While he was in Georgia he met Phineas Miller, who was also at Yale. He helped Eli with a place to stay, and introduced him to Catherine Littlefield Greene.
He was famous during his lifetime and afterward by the name Eli Whitney. His son, born in 1820, also named Eli, was well known during his lifetime and afterward by the name Eli Whitney, Jr. Whitney's mother, Elizabeth Fay, died in 1777, when he was 11. At age 14 he operated a profitable nail manufacturing operation in his father's workshop during the Revolutionary War.