Father Lamson Inventions Information

Father Silas Lamson was a 19th-century American eccentric who would appear at abolitionist meetings, in a long white beard and white robe, and carrying a large scythe, in the fashion of Death or Father Time. One account of an abolitionist meeting includes this anecdote:

Another account reads:

Silas Lamson invented the curved scythe snath.

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