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Elias Howe Jr. was born on July 9, 1819 to Dr. Elias Howe Sr. and Polly (Bemis) Howe in Spencer, Massachusetts.
Howe spent his childhood and early adult years in Massachusetts where he apprenticed in a textile factory in Lowell beginning in 1835.
In 1835 Elias was apprenticed to a manufacturer of cotton machinery in Lowell, Massachussets.
Two years later he worked briefly in a machine shop in Cambridge, then apprenticed himself in Boston to a maker of watches and scientific instruments.
While working in this shop, Howe is said to have overheard the owner discussing the need for, and problems involved in making, a sewing machine.
Later he was able to take in a partner, who provided more capital.
Howe had a sewing machine working as early as April 1845, and in September 1846 he obtained a United States patent for his second machine.
He remained in England from 1847 to 1849 and undertook numerous legal actions against those who had infringed his patent, particularly Isaac Merritt Singer.
These suits were finally settled in his favor in 1854, and Howe became rich.
One key to his success was the placement of the eye of the needle near the point, rather than at the opposite end as in a regular needle.
This manufacturer saw the possibilities the sewing machine would have if it could be redesigned to sew leather for shoes. He asked Howe to come to England to work on the problem. This appeared to infringe his patent. Years of disappointment and discouragement followed before he was successful in introducing his invention, and several imitations which infringed his patent, particularly that of Isaac Merritt Singer (1811 - 1875), had already been successfully introduced and were widely used. His rights were established after much litigation in 1854, and by the date of expiration of his patent (1867) he had realized something over $2, 000, 000 out of his invention.
At the height of his prosperity Howe received as much as $4, 000 a week in royalties. Howe's new wealth was but one measure of the success of the sewing machine.
His patent was renewed in 1860, but he refused to accept a further renewal in 1867, the year in which his perfected machine won a gold medal at the Paris Exhibition.
In 1860 some 110, 000 sewingmachines were manufactured.
In turn, there was a rise in the number of ready-to-wear garments. The sewing machine was applied to shoemaking with the same results.
Years of disappointment and discouragement followed before he was successful in introducing his invention, and several imitations which infringed his patent, particularly that of Isaac Merritt Singer (1811 - 1875), had already been successfully introduced and were widely used.
His rights were established after much litigation in 1854, and by the date of expiration of his patent (1867) he had realized something over $2, 000, 000 out of his invention.
He was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1915.
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Howe contributed much of the money he earned to providing equipment for the 17th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry of the Union Army during the Civil War, in which Howe served as a Private in Company D. Due to his faltering health he performed light duty, often seen walking with the aid of his shillelagh, and took on the position of Regimental Postmaster, serving out his time riding to and from Baltimore with war news.
He married Elizabeth Jennings Ames, daughter of Simon Ames and Jane B. Ames, on March 3, 1841 in Cambridge.
They had three children: Jane Robinson Howe (1842-1912), Simon Ames Howe (1844-1883), and Julia Maria Howe (1846-1869).
