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Thomas Buckland Jeffery (5 February 1845 – 2 April 1910)〔New York Times obituary 4 April 1910〕 was an inventor and manufacturer of bicycles and early automobiles. == Early life == Jeffery was born on 5 February 1845 at 3 Mill Pleasant in Stoke, Devon, England to Thomas Hellier and Elizabeth (Buckland) Jeffery.〔T B Jeffery's birth certificate〕 At sixteen years of age he was working as a "mathematical instrument maker."〔UK Census 1861, Public Record Office〕 At eighteen years of age, he emigrated to the United States and became a resident of Chicago, where "he was connected with the business of manufacturing telescopes." Later he was engaged in making models for the patent office and in 1879 started in the bicycle business, being one of the pioneers in that field. He, with R. Philip Gormully, organized the Gormully & Jeffery Manufacturing Company and began making the Rambler bicycle.
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