Eli Whitney
...ll nails. The nails were being sold at a good price at that time. Other than working like that for the rest of his life, Eli wanted to go to college. There were quite a few obstacles in his way, but he made his way through all of them. Once Eli finished studying he took an exam to get in to Yale, and passed the test making it to Yale. At the age of twenty-seven Eli graduated. At this time he was really poor. President Stiles of Yale told him he could work being a teacher in South Carolina. He proudly said that he would take the job. On his way south he was shipwrecked and ended up in New York. There he met Pheneas Miller and Catherine Grene, changing his life forever. Whitney went south and stayed at the plantation with the women. He figured out that it would be better working here at the plantation than...