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Hiram Abif. Hiram is the name of the slain builder from the third degree of the craft lodge system. While his biblical counterpart returned to his native Tyre, his death is only allegorical in Masonry. Sadly many Freemasons are unaware of this.
Thomas L. Jennings (1791-1859) was the first African American person to receive a patent in the U.S., paving the way for future inventors of color to gain exclusive rights to their inventions. Born in 1791, Jennings lived and worked in New York City as a tailor and dry cleaner. He invented an early method of dry cleaning called dry scouring and patented it in 1821âfour years before Paris tailor Jean Baptiste Jolly refined his own chemical technique and established what many people claim was historyâs first dry cleaning business.