Thanks to cousin Pat Moir for finding the following:
US Patent #280660 was awarded to Samuel R. Parker and Paul P. DeVeny on Jul 3, 1883 for a “Shifting-Rail for Buggy-Seats.”
The images are available on the website of the US patent office.
This suggests that he might have been back in Plymounth, OH in 1883 or so. In the 1880 Census his family was in Cleveland. By 1893 he was in Bellefontaine, OH.
There’s no evidence (yet) that this invention went any further. As we saw at an “inventor’s” meeting a friend dragged me to a decade ago, tons of people had patents but few ever “got” anything from them at all.
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