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Elias Howe – Sewing machine

⦁ American, pioneer, a man of many things, inventor of the new constructed sewing machine, Elias Howe Junior, was born on the 9th of July 1819 in Spencer, Massachusetts to Doctor, Elias Howe and Polly Howe (Bemis). He died on the 3rd of October 1867. He had eight siblings, three brothers, Amasa Bemis Howe, Sylvester Howe, Horace Smith Howe and five sisters, Eliza Howe, Corintha Howe, Juliett Howe, Fannie Howe and Mary Howe.
⦁ At age eleven, Howe was apprenticed by his neighbour where he had to live and work until he was twenty-one. This was extremely difficult for Howe as he had a lame foot. One year had pasted and Howe decided to return home and worked at his father’s mill’s until he was sixteen. For two years

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