Charles Provost, with a model of the cotton press that he and his brother developed.

The American Cotton Planter from 1853 (Volume 1, page 304) mentions the invention: "New Cotton Press.--Messrs. W. F. & C. J. Provost, of Selma, have invented and constructed a new cotton press. . . . There is no process now used in the South, we learn from many of our farming friends, that...

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