Piercy, Willis Duff · New York, Charles E. Merrill company · leaf 192
ight desire. Howewas afterw^ard of the opinion that the investment ofthis $250 by the English machinist brought ultimatelyto that man a profit of one million dollars. During all this time Howe was extremely poor. Heand his wife and children had gone to England, buton account of poverty he was… … Elias Howe times as much, in order to procure money enough topay his return passage to America. He also pawnedhis first-made machine and his patent on the invention.In April, 1849, he landed at New York with only an SOME MACHINES 191 English half-crown in his pocket. Procuring employ-ment in a…
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