Daniel Coit Gilman

Historical marker location:

Johns Hopkins Homewood, Maryland

( Marker can be reached from the intersection of North Charles Street (Maryland Route 139) and East 32nd Street, on the left when traveling north.)

1831 - 1908.

Maryland was home to the first African American woman to hold a patent: In 1885, Sarah E. Goode, an African American woman from Baltimore, became the first African American woman to hold a U.S. patent. Her invention was a folding cabinet bed, which was designed to save space in small apartments.