Show origin of the fhe collar in the patent loftlee HI at washington there Is a womans comans department with the specifications of the patents arranged in chronological order the ali crt on the list lq la a patent taken out in 9 by ilis mary kieser for or a process of weaving wearing straw with silk one woman inventor 11 hannah annall lord montague SIon tague Is honored fly by a public memorial in troy N Y where there she was wa born As mrs montague was a doing the family washing on a 8 hot summer day in 1825 it occurred to her that a shirt remained clean for a longer period than a collar so when then her hus hug bands shirts wore were dry the mie detached the collars from them subsequently she started to making detachable coi collars tor for sale to ter her neighbors and the demand for them reached btuch a pitch that before 1840 several factories fac torte 0 of string collars KB as they were called in their infancy were established in troy which still possesses pos tho the largen colilar factory in the tb |