Elias Howe
Elias Howe (1819-1867), inventor of the sewing machine.
Died in 1867 at Bridgeport, Connecticut.
1867 Obituary. 'The American papers record the death of Elias R. Howe Jun., the inventor of the sewing machine. He died on the 3rd, at Bridgeport, Connecticut, and was born in 1819, at Spencer, in Massachusetts. At the age of sixteen he went to work in a manufactory of machinery in Lowell. At the age of seventeen the closing of the mills in Lowell sent him adrift, and he afterwards found work in a shop in Cambridge, where he was companion with his cousin, Nathaniel P. Banks, since governor of Massachusetts, Speaker of the House of Representatives, and major-general from Cambridge he went to Boston and worked in the shop of Ari Davis, where he first thought of the sewing machine. In April, 1845, he sewed a seam with his machine, and in May of the same year he had completed his work.[1]