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furniture, however, rather patronizingly . calls the rocking chair “fundamentally rustic or inelegant.” '» -
Outstanding or inelegant, the rocking chair has been associated with many famous Americans, the National Geographic Society says.*. Burr Cedited in Rocker
Benjamin Franklin is credited 'w}fh inventing the rocking chair, 'Aaron' Burr courted an Indian princess in a two-seater, and Lincoln 'was assassinated while sitting in a rocker. Contrary to 'popular belief, though, Whistler’s mother did not sit for her portrait in a rocking chair.
Rockers have been used on | cradles since the Middle Ages, but it took that indefatigable ' gadgeteer Franklin to fasten i curved pieces of wood to chair legs. This simple ict occurred about 1762, and, according to I one devotee of rocking, “took I the functional process of sitting
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