Mary Walton
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Mary Walton (1727-1794) was an independent inventor who became the wife of Lewis Morris in 1749. Ten children, Lewis, Jacob, William, James Staats, Richard V., Catharine, Mary, Sarah, and Helena were born to them. The four oldest sons all fought in the American Revolution and acquitted themselves with great credit.
Her father was Jacob Walton who had married Maria Beekman, daughter of Dr. Gerardus Beekman, and with his brother William carried on the great business founded by their father.
In 1879 Walton created a method for reducing the environmental hazards of the smoke that up until then was pouring unchecked from factories all over the country. Walton's system, patent #221,880 deflected the emissions being produced into water tanks, where the pollutants were retained and then flushed into the city sewage system.
Walton died in 1794. In 1923 New York City elementary school principal, Mary A. Conlon, honoured her for her work and named Walton High School for girls after her. On April 23, 1923 the New York City Board of Education accredited Walton and constructed a new site for the school on Jerome Avenue and West 195th Street in the Bronx.
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