Jan 2, 2010
John Quincy Zinn, a gentleman inventor, fifty-two years old in 1879. John is tall, wide-shouldered, and handsome despite the dagger-shaped birthmark on his left temple. He is the son of a dishonest peddler whom, as a child, he saw tarred, feathered, and burned. John was adopted by a farm family, became a radical schoolmaster influenced by transcendentalism, and finally, after being lionized by Philadelphia society, married into the wealthy Kiddemaster family, which supports his experimental laboratory and large family. Convinced of the inevitability of...
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