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Contribution #160 of 365
James Wormley
Hotel Entrepreneur and Inventor of a Ship Life-Saving Apparatus
1871–1881
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Wormley built Washington's prominent Wormley Hotel and received an 1881 U.S. patent for a life-saving apparatus designed for ships. His career combined hospitality, business ownership, property development and invention.