History’s Forgotten “Denture Patent War” Spawned A Truly Bizarre Murder
To Samuel Chalfant, it seemed that his nemesis, Josiah Bacon. had pursued him since the day he graduated from dental school. He abandoned his first practice in Wilmington, Delaware in 1873 rather than pay the 45-year-old businessman the tribute demanded. Two years later, his dental office in St. Louis came to an equally ignominious end,…
