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Nelson Barbour
One occasionally sees his name printed as Nelson Homer Barbour. This is wrong. The British patent for his steam generating machine gives his middle name as "Horatio."
See: Bennet Woodcroft: Alphabetical Index of Patentees and Applicants of Patents for Invention for the Year 1870, London, 1871, page 12.
See: Bennet Woodcroft: Alphabetical Index of Patentees and Applicants of Patents for Invention for the Year 1870, London, 1871, page 12.
Orion Green
Orion Green was one of the delegates to the Worchester Prophetic Conference in 1872. The conference examined confilicting chronological views including Barbour's speculations. Orion Green produced this booklet in 1871.