Points of Interest
- Kane gave credit to inventors and other individuals who deserved recognition and/or credit for certain accomplishments, such as Walter Hunt. Kane figured out Hunt was the actual inventor of the first stitch-lock sewing machine (the credit went to Elias Howe and Isaac Singer). Hunt also invented the first American safety pin.
- In his bank safety deposit box Kane kept America's first fountain pen, Walter Hunt's 1849 patent model for the first American safety pin, and a shoe with a heel that could be rotated for wear.
- Kane was a Freemason. He was the Master of King Solomon Lodge in New York City in 1927. Kane wrote articles about the history of Freemasonry.
- Kane believed in the motto Simple truth is the most eloquent oratory.
- Kane was called on for answers by the White House three or four times a year.
- Kane is one of few people in recorded history to have actually lived in three different centuries: the 19th century, the 20th century, and the 21st century.
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