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William Priestley 1828 - 1919

William Priestley of Bwk Australia was born in 1828 to Robert Priestley and Anne Allen Priestley. He had siblings Enos Priestley and Jane Anne Priestley. William Priestley died at age 91 years old in 1919 in Bwk.

William Priestley

Bwk Australia

1828

1919

Bwk, Australia

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1919

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Bwk Australia
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In 1828, in the year that William Priestley was born, Hungarian inventor and physicist, Ányos Jedlik - a Benedictine priest - created the world's first electric motor, which he called an electromotor. Currently, the motor still works.

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In 1837, by the time he was just 9 years old, on February 25th, in Philadelphia, the Institute for Colored Youth (ICY) - the oldest African-American university in the United States - was founded. It was the first institution for the higher education of black people in the United States. Founded by Quaker Richard Humphreys who gave $10,000 to establish the school, it still exists today - although the location has moved and it has been renamed Cheyney University. Humphreys was concerned about the struggles of free African Americans to make a living.

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