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Pusey and assistant (perhaps his son) in his law office, circa 1895.
flipFlip to Joshua Pusey lived in "Maple Linden", a twenty room mansion in Lima, Delaware County.
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Two men working in an office, one seated at a desk and one seated in a chair next to the desk. A huge pot belly stove is in the room.

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.

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