By Tom Lonergan
In her lifetime, Martha Coston grew to become shut buddies with Admiral David Farragut, was once brought to British society in Queen Victoria’s personal drawing room, banqueted with Napoleon III on the Palaise de Tuilleries, danced with the King of Sweden at his summer season retreat at Rosendal, was once feted through the Admiral of the Russian fleet at Kronstadt Island in St. Petersburg, struggled throughout wintry weather ice floes in Scandinavia and fought fang and claw with the us Congress for her invention to be recognized.
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