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Hello Harmonia Amanda. I just saw a norwegian book-tip about 8 different children that has had an impact, and one of them was one real early ice skater, who got famous for other things, but it would be nice to find out more about his ice skating. A friend of mine are a speed skating historian and can't find him as a speed skater so maybe he was a figure skater which is why I turn to you, since I notice you do a lot of edits on figure skaters and figure skating-items on wikidata.

Qoute from the english wikipedia-article: He reportedly came up with the idea while ice skating and he asked his grandmother to sew tufts of fur between loops of wire.

So do you know of any results or competitions he may have participated in ? Best regards Migrant.

I'm afraid I don't know him at all. As far as I know he didn't participate in any big competitions (like Worlds or the Olympics), but he may have participated in local ones, since I really don't know anything about early American figure skating? You may have more luck asking U.S. Figure Skating (the American federation) on social media?

is it Chester Greenwood (Q1070724) ?

Yes! (the quote from the English Wikipedia Migrant stated in their message is from the linked article to this item)

from the way it is stated, it seems that he was perhaps just ice skating like any other youngster, in those times, in North-East America in winter... just for fun, not as a competion sport ?

Yes, the quoted sentence seems like just that, but a bright young kid which noticed this as a problem have probably skated more than once and could have participated in a local skating competition ? I guess to find out more about C. Greenwood, you'll have to go through the local newspapers of he's time.

BTW. The book-tip-page is here allthough it is in norwegian but you'll get the names, C. Greenwood are the number 8 in the list.

Best regards Migrant.

Hello again, I made a search at Chronicling America got 13 results, and looked through the 1870's and 1880's results and found nothing about skating. Best regards Migrant.