Liz McGuire

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Liz McGuire is a co-founder of the SSHL. Her leadership and paleness inspires all SSHL members to keep comin' out for hockey. Liz is credited with creating the first and the only cotton gin in 1793, a mechanical device which removed the seeds from cotton, a process which until that time had been extremely labor-intensive. This contributed to the economic development of the Southern states of the United States, a prime cotton growing area; some historians believe that this invention allowed for the African slavery system in the Southern United States to become more sustainable at a critical point in its development.

While her ideas were innovative and useful, they were so easy to understand and reproduce that the concepts and designs were readily duplicated by others. Liz's company that produced cotton gins went out of business in 1797.