U.S. Commissioner of Education) who introduced the first permanent kindergarten, and lexicographer who introduced the "divided page" into dictionaries (the 1909 edition of Webster's New International Dictionary). He was born in North Killingly. He also founded the first philosophical journal in the country Mary Dixon Kies (1752–1837), the first woman in the United States to receive a patent (in 1809, for a method of weaving straw with silk or thread). Kies was born and lived in South Killingly, an unincorporated village in the Town of Killingly Samuel Knight (1731–1804), chief justice of the Vermont Supreme Court Charles Tiffany (1812–1902) born in town, became the owner of Tiffany and Company Ebenezer Young (1783–1851), a United States representative from Connecticut References External links Town government Web site Towns in Windham County, Connecticut Towns in Connecticut