Edwin G. Seibels
Deceased Person
1866 – 1954
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Who was Edwin G. Seibels?
Edwin Grenville Seibels was the inventor in 1898 of the vertical filing system that has been in extensive use for over a century. Although he applied for a patent for his system, it was denied on the ground that it was only an idea, not a device.
He was born in Columbia, South Carolina, grew up in Mount Willing, the family cotton plantation in Edgefield County, now Saluda County and went to work in the family's Columbia-based insurance business, E. W. Seibels and Son
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