Flip to Joshua Pusey lived in "Maple Linden", a twenty room mansion in Lima, Delaware County.
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Credit: Courtesy of the Delaware County Historic Society, Pa.
After patenting his flexible matches in 1892, Joshua Pusey spent the next three years defending his patent against a variety of lawsuits. To end the litigation he sold his patent in 1896 to the Diamond Match Company for $4,000 and took a job with the company. Diamond's domination of the American match industry would soon win Pusey's invention worldwide recognition.