Lucean Arthur Headen
Snider, Jill D.![Lucean Arthur Headen](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/325/32594288/CHSBZCOP0332594288.jpg)
Born in Carthage, North Carolina, Lucean Arthur Headen (1879-1957) grew up amid former slave artisans. Inspired by his grandfather, a wheelwright, and great-uncle, a toolmaker, he dreamed as a child of becoming an inventor. His ambitions suffered the menace of Jim Crow and the reality of a new inventive landscape in which investment was shifting from lone inventors to the new 'industrial scientists.' But determined and ambitious, Headen left t...