The Invention of the Sewing Machine

by Grace Rogers Cooper

Geographical Index to Companies listed in Appendix II

CONNECTICUT
Bridgeport
D. W. Clark, [67]
Jerome B. Secor, [68]
Goodbody Sewing Machine Co., [69]
Howe Machine Co., [69]
Secor Machine Co., [72]
American Hand Sewing Machine Co., [72]
Wheeler & Wilson Mfg. Co., [74]
Bristol
Nettleton & Raymond, [72]
Watson & Wooster, [73]
Danbury
Bartram & Fanton Mfg. Co., [66]
Hartford
Morrison, Wilkinson & Co., [71]
Weed Sewing Machine Co., [74]
Meriden
Fosket and Savage, [68]
Charles Parker Co., [72]
Parker Sewing Machine Co., [72]
Middletown
Victor Sewing Machine Co., [73]
Norwich
Greenman and True Mfg. Co., [69]
Waterbury
Waterbury Co., [73]
West Meriden
Parkers, Snow, Brooks & Co., [70]
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Washington
Post Combination Sewing Machine Co., [72]
ILLINOIS
Belleville
Thomas M. Cochrane Co., [71]
J. H. Drew & Co., [71]
Belvidere
June Mfg. Co., [70]
National Sewing Machine Co., [71]
Chicago
Chicago Sewing Machine Co., [67]
Eldredge Sewing Machine Co., [68]
Free Sewing Machine Co., [69]
Scates, Tryber & Sweetland Mfg., [67]
Sigwalt Sewing Machine Co., [67], [73]
H. B. Goodrich, [69]
June Mfg. Co., [70]
Rockford
Free Sewing Machine Co., [69]
MAINE
Biddeford
Shaw & Clark Sewing Machine Co., [71], [73]
MASSACHUSETTS
Boston
O. Phelps, [66]
J. F. Paul & Co., [66]
Boston Sewing Machine Co., [66]
Bradford & Barber, mfgs., [66]
John P. Bowker, [68]
Empire Sewing Machine Co., [68]
Finkle & Lyon Sewing Machine Co., [68], [73]
Grover and Baker Sewing Machine Co., [69]
Nichols and Bliss, [69]
J. B. Nichols & Co., [69]
Nichols, Leavitt & Co., [69], [70]
N. Hunt & Co., [70]
Hunt and Webster, [70]
Emery, Houghton & Co., [70]
Ladd, Webster & Co., [70]
Leavitt & Co., [70]
Leavitt Sewing Machine Co., [70]
Safford & Williams Makers, [71]
C. A. French, [72]
F. R. Robinson, [72]
Howard & Davis, [72]
I. M. Singer & Co., [73]
Butterfield & Stevens Mfg. Co., [74]
Williams & Orvis Sewing Machine Co., [74]
Chicopee Falls
Shaw & Clark Co., [73]
Chicopee Sewing Machine Co., [73]
Florence
Florence Sewing Machine Co., [67], [68]
Foxboro
Foxboro Rotary Shuttle Co., [68]
Lowell
Aetna Sewing Machine Co., [65]
Lynn
Woolridge, Keene and Moore, [67]
Orange
Gold Medal Sewing Machine Co., [69]
Johnson, Clark & Co., [69], [71], [73]
Grout & White, [71]
New Home Sewing Machine Co., [71]
Springfield
Leader Sewing Machine Co., [70]
Springfield Sewing Machine Co., [73]
D. B. Wesson Sewing Machine Co.,[74]
Winchendon
J. G. Folsom, [68], [69], [71]
William Grout, [71]
Worcester
Goddard, Rice & Co., [66]
MICHIGAN
Detroit
Decker Mfg. Co., [67]
C. G. Gardner, [69]
MISSOURI
St. Louis
Wardwell Mfg. Co., [73]
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Dover
O. L. Reynolds Manufacturing Co., [71]
Marlboro
Thurston Mfg. Co., [67]
Mason Village
Franklin Sewing Machine Co., [68]
NEW JERSEY
Elizabethport
Singer Mfg. Co. (manufactory, not office), [73]
Paterson
Whitney Sewing Machine Co., [74]
NEW YORK
Binghamton
Independent Sewing Machine Co., [70]
Brooklyn
J. H. Lester, [70]
G. L. Du Laney, [70]
Ithaca
Aiken and Felthousen (patentees), [65]
American Magnetic Sewing Machine Co., [65]
Clinton Brothers, [67]
T. C. Thompson, [73]
New York
Avery Sewing Machine Co., [66]
A. Bartholf, mfg., [66]
Bartholf Sewing Machine Co., [66]
Bartlett Sewing Machine Co., [66]
Barlow & Son, [66]
Beckwith Sewing Machine Co., [66]
J. A. Davis, [67]
Demorest Mfg. Co., [67]
Charles A. Durgin, [68]
Elliptic Sewing Machine Co., [68]
Eureka Shuttle Sewing Machine Co., [68]
Excelsior Sewing Machine Co., [68]
Madame Demorest, [68]
First and Frost, [68]
L. Griswold, [69]
Howe Sewing Machine Co., [69]
Thos. A. Macauley Mfg., [70]
New York Sewing Machine Co., [71]
T. W. Robertson, [72]
I. M. Singer & Co., [73]
Singer Mfg. Co., [73]
Standard Shuttle Sewing Machine Co., [73]
Henry Stewart & Co., [73]
Stewart Mfg. Co., [73]
E. E. Lee & Co., [74]
Willcox & Gibbs Sewing Machine Co., [74]
Watertown
Davis Sewing Machine Co., [67]
Wheeler, Wilson & Co., [74]
Westmoreland
A. B. Buell, [67]
OHIO
Cleveland
Wilson (W. G.) Sewing Machine Co., [66], [74]
Domestic Sewing Machine Co. (after 1924), [67]
Leslie Sewing Machine Co., [70]
Standard Sewing Machine Co., [73]
White Sewing Machine Co., [74]
Dayton
Davis Sewing Machine Co., [67]
Elyria
West & Willson Co., [74]
Norwalk
Dauntless Mfg. Co., [67], [72]
Wm. A. Mack & Co., and N. S. Perkins, [67]
Domestic Sewing Machine Co., [67], [70]
Springfield
Royal Sewing Machine Co., [72]
St. John Sewing Machine Co., [73]
Toledo
Jewel Mfg. Co., [70]
PENNSYLVANIA
Erie
Noble Sewing Machine Co., [72]
Philadelphia
American Buttonhole, Overseaming and Sewing Machine Co., [65]
Centennial Sewing Machine Co., [67]
George B. Sloat and Co., [68]
Rex & Bockius, [69]
Grant Bros. & Co., [69]
B. W. Lacey & Co., [71]
Parham Sewing Machine Co., [72]
Philadelphia Sewing Machine Co., [72]
Quaker City Sewing Machine Co., [72]
E. Remington & Sons, [72]
Taggart & Farr, [73]
Pittsburgh
Love Mfg. Co., [70]
RHODE ISLAND
Providence
Household Sewing Machine Co., [69]
Providence Tool Co., [69]
VERMONT
Brattleboro
Samuel Barker and Thomas White, [66]
Brattleboro Sewing Machine Co., [68]
Estey Sewing Machine Co., [68]
Higby Sewing Machine Co., [69]
Nettleton & Raymond (Charles Raymond), [71]
Windsor
Lamson, Goodnow & Yale, [67], [74]
Vermont Arms Co., [74]
VIRGINIA
Richmond
Lester Mfg. Co., [70]
Union Sewing Machine Co., [68], [70]
Old Dominion Sewing Machine Co., [72]
WISCONSIN
Milwaukee
Whitehill Mfg. Co., [74]

Alphabetical Index to Patentees listed in Appendix III

Abercrombi, Charles, 520977
Abbott, W. W., 252984
Adams, John Q., 92138
Alexander, Elisa, 16518
Ambler, D. C., 11884
Angell, Benjamin J., 19285
Applegate, John H., and Webb, Charles B., 177784
Appleton, C. J., and Sibley, J. J., 179440
Arnold, B., 86121, 138981, 138982
Arnold, G. B. and A., 30112
Arnold, G. B., 28139
Atwater, B., 44063
Atwood, J. E., 22273
Atwood, K. C., 194759
Atwood, J. E., J. C., and O., 19903
Avery, Otis, 9338, 10880
Avery, O. and Z. W., 22007
Bachelder, J., 6439
Baglin, William, 154113
Baker, G. W., 70152, 125374, 130005
Baldwin, Cyrus W., 38276
Banks, C. M., 225784
Barcellos, D., 203102
Barnes, M. M., 106307
Barnes, William T., 20688, 25084, 25876
Barney, Samuel C., 156119
Barrett, O. D., 25785
Bartholf, Abraham, 19823
Bartlett, Joseph W., 46064, 76385
Bartlett, Joseph W., and Plant, Frederick, 159065
Barton, Kate C., 182096
Bartram, W. B., 54670, 54671, 60669, 62520, 83592, 104247, 130557
Bates, W. G., assignor to Johnson, William H., 9592
Bayley, C. H., 212122
Bean, Benjamin W., 2982
Bean, E. E., 28144
Beardslee, W. F., 245781
Beck, August, 190184, 196863
Beckwith, William G., 126921, 133351, 167382
Behn, Henry, 18071, 18880
Belcher, C. D., 16710
Benedict, C. P., 83596
Bennett, Frank Howard, and Dowling, James, 409728
Bennor, Joseph, 106249
Benson, George, 238556
Beukler, William, 204704
Beuttel, Charles, 115155
Bigelow, J., 263467
Billings, C. E., 88603
Bishop, H. H., 22226
Black, Samuel S., 146642
Blake, Lyman R., 20775, 74289
Blanchard, Helen A., 141987
Bland, Henry, 216016, 221505
Blodgett, S. C, 15469, 21465
Blodgett, John W., 279320
Boecher, Adam, 300199
Bond, Joseph Jr., 12939, 93588, 189599
Booth, Ezekiel, 25087
Boppel, Jacob, 396979
Borton, S., 214089
Borton, Stockton, and Willcox, Charles H., 255576, 255577, 255580, 255581
Bosworth, C. F., 19979, 38807, 122555, 199500, 216504
Bounaz, A., 83909, 83910
Bouscay, Eloi, Jr., 127145
Bowyer, J. T., 454708
Boyd, A. H., 19171, 24003, 31864
Bracher, T. W., 221508
Bradeen, J. G., 9380
Bradford, E. F. and Pierce, V. R., 177371
Braundbeck, E., 127675
Brewer, A. G., 152894
Briggs, Thomas, 198790
Brown, F. H., 94389, 102366, 131735, 193477
Bruen, J. T., 31208
Bruen, L. B., 68839
Budlong, William G., 25946
Buell, J. S., 25381
Buhr, Johannes, 151272
Burnet, S. S. and Broderick, W., 22160
Burr, Theodore, 32023
Butcher, Joseph, 180542, 233657
Cadwell, Caleb, 45972, 71131
Cajar, Emil, 50299, 61711
Cameron, James W., 272527
Campbell, Duncan H., 241612, 241613
Canfield, F. P., 86057
Carhart, Peter S., 24098
Carlisle, W. S., 270540
Carpenter, Lunan, 20990
Carpenter, Mary P., 112016
Carpenter, William, 87633
Carr, William H. and Ostrom, F. W., 303361
Case, George F., 33029
Cately, William H., 56902
Chamberlain, J. N., 28452
Chandler, Rufus, 133757, 139368
Charmbury, H., 316745
Chase, M., 113498
Chilcott, J. and Scrimgeour, J., 12856
Chittenden, H. H., 43289
Choquette, A. E., 244033
Clark, David W., 19015, 19072, 19129, 19409, 19732, 20481, 21322, 23823
Clark, Edwin, 26336
Clark, Edwin E., 74751
Clements, James M., 57451
Cleminshaw, S., 128363, 213391
Clever, P. J., 96886
Clever, Peter J., 296529
Coates, F. S., 19684
Cole, W. H., 79447
Conant, J. S., 12233
Conklin, N. A., 206774
Cook, Hugo, 454610
Cooney, W., 102226
Corbett, E. and Harlow, C. F., 192568
Corey, J. W., 198970
Corliss, George H., 3389
Cornely, E., 73696
Cornely, Emile, 219225
Craige, E. H., 62186, 67635
Crane, Thomas, 150532
Crosby, C. O., 50225, 90507
Crosby, C. O. and Kellogg, H., 37033
Cummins, William G., 187822
Curtis, G. H. W., 228985
Cushman, C. S., 142442, 184594
Dale, John D., 44686
Dancel, Christian, 199802
Darling and Darling, 163639
Davis, Job A., 27208, 58614
Derocquigny, A. C. F., Gance, D., and Hanzo, L., 34748
Deschamps, O. L., 253915
Destouy, Auguste, 56729
Dewees, John W., 432746

Dickinson, C. W., 26346
Diehl, Philipp, 339623, 347776, 347777, 348113
Dieterle, H. E., 353542
Dimmock, Martial and Rixford, Nathan, 19135
Dimond, George H., 196198, 207400
Dinsmore, Alfred S., 160512, 231155
Dinsmore, A. S., and Carter, John T., 152618
Doll, Arnold, 68420
Dopp, H. W., 27279
Dowling, James, and Connolly, John, 299118
Drake, Ellis, 155932
Duchemin, William, 59715, 91101, 135032, 288929
Dunbar, C. F., 88282
Durgin, Charles A., 12902
Earle, T., 31156
Eickemeyer, Rudolf, 52698, 182182, 239319
Elderfield, F. D., 204429
Eldridge, G. W., 87331
Elliott, F., 85918
Emerson, John, 50989
Emswiler, J. B., 25002
Esty, William, 187837
Fales, J. F., 74328
Fanning, John, 72829, 129013
Farr, Chester N., 25004
Farrar, Arthur, 309837
Fetter, George, 18793, 19059
Fish, Warren L., 123625
Fletcher, James N., 443756
Follett, Joseph L., 189446
Fosket, William A., and Savage, Elliot, 22719, 25963
French, Stephen, 80345
Frese, B., 172308
Fuller, H. W., 63033
Fuller, William M., 32496
Garland, H. P., 159812, 169163
Gee, W. V., 361406
Gibbs, James E. A., 16234, 16434, 17427, 21129, 21751, 27214, 28851
Gird, E. D., 87559
Goodes, E. A., 136718, 147387
Goodspeed, G. N., 54816
Goodwin, Julius C., 450793
Goodwyn, H. H., 24455
Goodyear, Charles Jr., 111197, 116947
Gordon, James, and Kinert, William, 125807
Gray, Joshua, 16566, 19665, 24022, 95581
Green, George F., 238678
Greenough, John J., 2466
Gritzner, M. C., 44720, 76323
Gritzner, Max C., 243444
Grote, F. W., 38447
Grout, William, 24629
Grover, William O., 14956, 33778, 36405, 100139
Grover, William O., and Baker, William E., 7931
Guinness, William S., 41916
Gullrandsen, P. E., and Rettinger, J. C., 180225
Gutmann, Julius, 90528
Halbert, A. W., 76076
Hall, William, 24870
Hale, William S., 36084
Hall, Luther, 43404
Hall, L., 105329
Hall, John S., 168637, 187006
Hallenbeck, J. P., 425422
Hallett, H. H., 191584
Hamm, E., 219578
Hancock, Henry J., 83492, 112033
Hanlon, John, 52847
Happe, J., and Newman, W., 130715, 137199
Hardie, J. W., 30854
Harris, Daniel, 17508, 17571
Harris, David, 185228
Harrison, J. Jr., 10763, 13616, 25013, 25262
Hart, William, 50469
Hayes, James, 55029
Hayden, H. W., 24937
Heberling, J., 204604, 227249, 227525, 284300
Hecht, A., 50473
Heery, Luke, 94740
Heidenthal, William, 127765
Helwig, Arthur, 350364
Hendrick, Joseph E., 19660, 21722
Hendrickson, E. M., 34330
Henriksen, H. P., 104590, 188515, 215615
Hensel, George, 24737
Herron, A. C., 20557
Hesse, Joseph, 235085
Heyer, W. D., 40622
Heyer, Frederick, 30731
Hicks, William C., 26035, 29268
Hinkley, Jonas, 25231
Hinds, Jesse L., 131166
Hine, Charles M., 420382
Hine, Charlie M., 246136
Hodgkins, Christopher, 9365, 33085, 69666
Hoefler, J., 246883
Hoffman, George W., 94112
Hoffman, Clara P., and Meyers, Nicholas, 207035
Holden, O. J., and Griswold, L., 272050
Hollowell, J. G., 27624
Holly, Birdsill, 28176
Hook, Albert H., 22179, 24027
Horr, Addison D., 149862
House, James A., 206239
House, James A., and House, Henry A., 36932, 39442, 39445, 55865, 87338, 114294
Howard, C. W., 126056, 126057
Howard, T. S. L., 199206
Howard, E. L., 154485
Howard, E., and Jackson, W. H., 103745
Howe, Amasa Bemis, 37913
Howe, Elias, 4750, 16436
Hubbard, George W., 18904, 21537
Hull, E. H., 254217
Humphrey, D. W. G., 36617, 49627
Hunt, Walter, 11161
Huntington, Thomas S., 158214
Hurtu, Auguste J., 258761, 315037
Hurtu, Auguste J., and Hautin, Victor J., 98064
Ingalls, N., Jr., 212602
Jackson, Francis, 519064
Jackson, William, 181941
Jacob, Frederick, 190047
Jencks, G. L., 74694
Jennings, L., 16237
Johnson, Albert F., 16387, 20686, 26948
Johnson, W. H., 10597
Jones, John T., 86163, 117640, 169106
Jones, Samuel H., 140631
Jones, Solomon, 118537, 118538
Jones, William, and Haughian, P., 32297
Juengst, George, 27132, 228820
Junker, Carl, 217112
Kallmeyer, G., 137689
Keats, Alphonso, 260990
Keats, John, 198120
Keats, John; Greenwood, Arthur; and Keats, Alphonso, 171622

Keats, John, and Clark. Wm. S., 50995
Keith, Jeremiah, 97518, 170741, 196809, 209126, 243710
Keith, T. H., 196909
Keith, T. K., 170955
Kelsey, D., 24939
Kendall, George F., 101887
Kern, Ferdinand, 479369
Kilbourn, E. E., 59746
Kjalman, H. N., 235783
Knoch, Charles F., 183400
Koch, William, 262298
Koch, Friederich, and Brass, Robert, 138898, 145215
Lamb, Isaac W., 109632
Lamb, Thomas, 98390, 118728
Lamb, Thomas, and Allen, John, 49421
Lamson, Henry P., 79579
Landfear, William R., 109427, 155193
Langdon, Leander W., 13727, 39256
Lathbury, E. T., 17744
Lathrop, Lebbeus W., 139067
Lathrop, Lebbeus W., and de Sanno, William P., 40446
Lawrence, G. H., 290895
Lazelle, W. H., 18915
Leavitte, Albert, 171147
Leavitt, Rufus, 30634
Leavitt, Albert, and Drew, Henry L., 187874
Legat, D. M., 218388
Legg, Albert, and Weston, Charles W., 474840
Leslie, A. M., 241808
Leyden, Austin, 57157
Lingley, John W., 368538
Lipe, C. E., 229322
Lisle, Myron C., 428171
Ludeke, Waldemar, 275506, 300380
Lyon, Lucius, 89489, 96713, 105820
Lyon, W., 12066
Macauley, F. A., 195939
Mack, William A., 38592
Mallary, G. H., 31897
Mann, Charles, 33556
Marble, F. E., 33439
Marin, Charles, 179709
Martin, W., Jr.; Dawson, D. R.; and Orchar, R., 206743
Martine, Charles F., 104612
Meyers, Nicholas, 99783
Melhuish, R. M., 194610
McCloskey, John, 55688, 161534
McClure, A. T., 130385
McKay, Gordon, and Blake, Lyman, 42916
McKay, Gordon, 188809
McLean, J. N., 88499
McCombs, George F., 208407
McCurdy, James S., 24395, 26234, 28097, 28993, 36256, 38931, 46303, 53743
Miehling, Charles, 351992
Miller, Charles, 9139, 26462
Miller, Westley, 20763
Miller, Lebbens B., and Diehl, Philipp, 229629, 274359
Mills, Daniel, 96944, 265850, 313359
Mooney, John H., 222298, 244470
Moore, Charles, 21015
Moreau, Eugene, 110669, 156171
Morley, J. H., 228918, 236350
Morrell, R. W.; Parkinson, T.; Parkinson, J., 202857
Morrison, T. W., 216289
Muegge, C. A., 332207
Mueller, H., 28996
Muir, William, 147152
Murphy, E., 176880
Nasch, Isidor, 104630
Necker, Carl, 117101
Nettleton, William H., and Raymond, Charles, 17049, 18350
Newell, George F., 242470
Newlove, Thomas, 27761
Norton, B. F., 32782
O’Neil, John, 137618
Oram, Henry, 185952
Osborne, J. H., 224219
Otis, S. L., 221093
Osterhout, James A., and Hallenbeck, Joseph P., 402610
Page, Charles, 96343, 150479
Paine, A. R., 27412
Palmateer, William A., 187479
Palmer, Aaron, 35252
Palmer, C. H., 38450, 124694, 240758
Palmer, Frank L., 185954
Palmer, John H., 298228
Parham, Charles, 109443, 135579
Parker, Sidney, 19662, 24780
Parks, Volney, 129981
Parmenter, Charles O., 212495
Payne, R. S., 30641
Pearson, M. H., 199991
Pearson, William, 26201
Pearson, William, 166805, 172478
Perry, James, 22148
Piper, D. B., 56990
Pipo, John A., 37550
Pitt, James; Joseph; Edward; and William, 117203
Planer, Louis, 43927
Porter, D. A., 144864
Porter, Alonzo, 99704
Porter, D’Arcy, and Baker, George W., 174703
Powell, Thomas, 442695
Pratt, Samuel F., 16745, 22240
Ragan, Daniel, 137321
Ramsden, John W., 262116
Randel, William, 192008
Rayer, William A., and Lincoln, William S., 108827
Raymond, Charles, 19612, 22220, 32785, 32925
Reed, T. K., 60241, 62287
Rehfuss, George, 40311, 51086, 61102, 73119
Reynolds, O. S., 19793
Rice, T. M., 176686
Rice, Quartus, 31429
Richards, Jean E., 252799
Richardson, E. F., 145687
Richardson, Everett P., 146948, 165506
Roberts, William, 254696
Robertson, T. J. W., 12015
Robinson, Charles E., 110790
Robinson, Frederick R., 7824
Rodier, Peter, 59659
Roper, S. H., 11531, 16026, 18522
Rose, Israel M., 28814, 31628
Rose, Reubin M., 170596
Rosenthal, Sally Adolph, 353970
Ross, Noble G., 31829
Ross, J. G., and Miller, T. L., 138764
Rowe, James, 26638, 27260
Ruddick, H., 28538
Rudolph, Bruno, 99481
Rudolph, Ernst B. (deceased), Boulter, W. E. (administrator), 449927
Russell, W. W., 86695
Sage, William, 17717
Sangster, Amos W., 21929
Savage, Elliott, 19876
Sawyer, Irvin P., and Alsop, T., 25918
Sawyer, Sylvanus, and Esty, William, 174159
Schmidt, Albert E., 162697
Schwalback, M., 56805
Scofield, Charles, 26059

Scofield, Charles, and Rice, Clarke, 28610
Scribner, Benjamin, Jr., 146483
Secor, J. B., 253772
Sedmihradsky, A. J., 196486
Shaw, E., 230580
Shaw, Philander, 11680
Shaw, A. B., 37202
Shaw, Henry L., 32007
Shaw and Clark, 38246
Sheffield, G. V., 135047
Shorey, Samuel W., 148765
Sibley, J. J., 42117
Sidenberg, William, 112745, 115117
Simmons, Frederick, 216902
Simmons, A. G., and Scofield, C., 41790
Singer, Isaac M., 8294, 10975, 12364, 13065, 13661, 13662, 14475, 60433, 61270
Smalley, J., 27577
Smith, DeWitt C., 45528
Smith, E. H., 20739, 21089, 96160
Smith, H. B., 12247
Smith, J. M., 31334
Smith, Lewis H., 31411, 32385
Smith, John C., 34988
Smith, James H., 148902
Smith, Wilson H., 28785
Smith, W. M., 225199
Smith, William T., 99743
Smyth, D. M., 126845, 234732
Snediker, J. F., 222089
Snyder, Watson, 22987
Spencer, James C., 24061
Spencer, James H., and Lamb, Thomas, 22137
Speirs, John, 152813
Spoehr, F., 101779
Springer, William A., 128919, 142290, 147441
Stackpole, G., and Applegate, J. H., 220314
Stannard, M., 64184
Stedman, G. W., 12074, 12573, 12798, 13856
Stein, M. J., 81956, 113593
Stevens, George, and Hendy, Joshua, 111488
Steward, A., 207454
Stewart, James, Jr., 141397, 432449
Stewart, W. T., 205698
Stoakes, J. W., 32456
Sullivan, John J., 179232
Sutton, William A., 29202
Swartwout, H. L., 89357
Swingle, A., 14207
Taft, J. C., 547866
Tapley, G. S., 25059
Tarbox, John N., 49803
Tate, William J., 113704
Taylor, F. B., 146721
Temple, John, 358088
Thayer, Augustus, 172205
Thimonnier, E., and Vernaz, C., 287592
Thomas, Joseph, 330170
Thomas, J., 236466
Thompson, J., 27082
Thompson, T. C., 9641
Thompson, Rosewell, 34926, 42449
Thurston, C. H., 233300
Tittman, Alexander, 89093, 136792
Toll, Charles F., 171193
Tracy, Dwight, 30012
Tracy, Dwight, and Hobbs, George, 40000
Trip, J., 308711
True, Cyrus B., 148336
Tucker, R. D., 320898
Tucker, Joseph C., 56641
Turner, M. G., 312306
Turner, S. S., 133553
Tuttle, J. W., and Keith, T. K., 219782
Thompson, George, 115255
Uhlinger, W. P., 21224
Upson, L. A., 176153
Van Vechten, O. R., 302063
Varicas, L., 204864
Venner, O., 133814
Veukler, W., 255916
Wagener, Jeptha A., 40296
Walker, William, 141407, 176101, 320099, 353720
Walker and Bennet, 428548
Ward, D. T., 12146
Wardwell, Simon W., Jr., 128684, 141245, 148339
Warth, Albin, 56646, 73064
Washburn, T. S., 30031
Waterbury, Enos, 79037
Watson, William C., 14433, 18834
Weber, Theodore A., 145823, 166236
Webb, T., and Heartfield, C. H., 213537
Webster, W., 182249, 402497
Weitling, W., 37931, 45777
Wells, W. W., 209843
Wensley, James, 152055, 207230
West, Elliott P., 117708, 130674, 138772
West, H. B., and Willson, H. F., 20753
Wheeler, Nathaniel, 420847
Wheeler, Nathaniel, and Dial, Wilbur F., 328165
Wheeler, Darius, and Carpenter, Lunan, 21100
Whitehill, Robert, 166172
Wickersham, William, 9679, 18068, 18069
Wilder, M. G., 32323
Wilkins, J. N., 36591
Wilkinson, Charles E., 269251
Willcox, Charles H., 42036, 43819, 44490, 44491, 218413, 230212, 246700
Willcox, C. H., and Borton, S., 472094
Willcox, C. H., and Carleton, C., 116521, 116523, 116783
Wilson, Allen B., 7776, 8296, 9041
Wiseman, Edmund, 228711
Witherspoon, S. A., 176211
Winter, William, 88936
Wollenberg, H., and Priesner, J., 206848
Wood, John, 185811
Wood, Richard G., 207928
Woodruff, George B., and Browning, George, 97014
Woodward, E., 247285
Woodward, F. G., 25782
Woodward, Erastus, and Keith, Thomas K., 316927
Wormald, William, and Dobson, Edmund, 169881
Young, E. S., and Dimond, G. H., 206992

General Index to Chapters 1-4

Adams and Dodge, [9]
Aetna Sewing Machine Company, [40]
American Buttonhole and Sewing Machine Company, [40]
Archbold, Thomas, [13]
Arrowsmith, George A., [11]
Bachelder, John, [22], [30], [34], [41], [42]
Baker, William E., [36] (see Grover & Baker)
Bartholf, A., [24], [40]
Bartlett Sewing Machine Company, [40]
Bartram & Fanton Manufacturing Company, [40]
Bean, Benjamin W., [13], [14], [15]
Blees Sewing Machine Company, [40]
Bliss, George, [24]
Blodgett and Lerow, [24], [26], [30]
Blodgett, Sherbrune C., [25]
Bradshaw, John A., [21], [22], [26], [27]
Brown, W. N., [50]
Centennial Sewing Machine Company, [40]
Chapman, Edward Walter, [7], [19]
Chapman, William, [7]
Clark, D. W., [47], [49]
Clark, Edward, [33], [34], [35]
Combination, Sewing-Machine, [23], [24], [38], [41]-[42], [47], [48]
Conant, Jotham S., [22]
Corliss, George H., [14], [15], [16]
Dale, John D., [54]
Davis, Ari, [19]
Davis Sewing Machine Company, [40]
Demorest, Madame, [53]
Dodge, Rev. John Adam, [9]
Domestic Sewing Machine Company, [40]
Duncan, John, [6], [19]
Elliptic Sewing Machine Company, [40]
Ellithorp, S. B., [51]
Ellithorp & Fox, [51]
Empire Sewing Machine Company, [40]
Fairy Sewing Machine, [53]
Family Sewing Machine (Singer), [35]
Finkle & Lyon Manufacturing Company, [40]
Fisher, George, [19]
Fisher, John, [15], [16]
Florence Sewing Machine Company, [40]
Folsom, J. G., [40]
Gibbons, James, [15]
Gibbs, James E. A., [45], [48]
Goddard, Rice & Co., [25]
Gold Medal Sewing Machine Company, [40], [53]
Goodspeed & Wyman Sewing Machine Company, [40]
Grasshopper, The, [35]
Greenough, John J., [13], [14]
Grover & Baker Sewing Machine Company, [24], [35], [37], [38], [40], [41]
Grover, William O., [35], [38]
Heberling, John, [54]
Henderson, James, [6]
Hendrick, Joseph, [49]
Heyer, W. D., [52]
Hook, Albert H., [50]
Howe, Amasa B., [24]
Howe, Elias, Jr., [11], [18], [19], [20], [21], [22], [23], [24], [28], [29], [33], [34], [41], [42], [138] (biographical sketch)
Howe Machine Company (Elias), [25]
Howe Sewing Machine Company (Amasa, then B. P.), [24], [25], [40]
Hunt, Walter, [10], [11], [19], [33], [138] (biographical sketch)
Jenny Lind (sewing machine), [30]
Johnson, Joseph B., [22]
Keystone Sewing Machine Company, [40]
Kline, A. P., [27]
Knowles, John, [9]
Krems, Balthasar, [7], [19]
Ladd & Webster Sewing Machine Company, [40]
Leavitt Sewing Machine Company, [40]
Lee, Edward, [27]
Lee, E. & Co., [27], [28]
Lerow, John A., [24], [25]
Little Gem, [53]
London Sewing Machine, [22]
Lye, Henry, [9]
McKay Sewing Machine Association, [40]
Madersperger, Josef, [8], [9], [12], [13]
Magnin, Jean Marie, [11], [22]
Mason, The Honorable Charles, [13]
Morey, Charles, [22]
Morey & Johnson, [23], [34], [42]
Newton, Edward, [13]
Nichols and Bliss, [24]
Palmer, Aaron, [52]
Parham Sewing Machine Company, [40]
Perry, James, [49]
Phelps, Orson C., [25], [30], [31]
Potter, Orlando B., [37], [38], [41]
Remington Sewing Machine Company, [40]
Robertson, T. J. W., [47]
Rodgers, James, [15]
Safford & Williams Makers, [22]
Saint, Thomas, [4], [5], [19]
Secor Sewing Machine Company, [40]
Shaw & Clark Sewing Machine Co., [40], [54]
Singer, Isaac Merritt, [23], [25], [30], [31], [33], [34], [35], [41], [142] (biographical sketch)
Singer, I. M. Company, [13], [32], [34], [40]
Singer Manufacturing Co., [30], [40], [42]
Singer’s Perpendicular Action Sewing Machine, [30], [31]
Stone, Thomas, [6]

Thimonnier, Barthelemy, [11], [19], [137] (biographical sketch)
Thomas, William, [20]
Thompson, C. F., [40]
Turtleback Machine (Singer), [35]
Union Buttonhole Machine Company, [40]
Warren and Woodruff, [28]
Weatherill, Jacob, [37]
Weed Sewing Machine Company, [40]
Weisenthal, Charles F., [4], [19]
Wheeler & Wilson Manufacturing Company, [22], [29], [30], [40]
Wheeler, Wilson and Company, [24], [28], [41]
Wheeler, Nathaniel, [27], [28]
Willcox and Gibbs Sewing Machine Company, [40], [46], [48]
Willcox, Charles, [46], [48]
Willcox, James, [46]
Wilson, Allen Benjamin, [26], [27], [28], [29], [30], [141] (biographical sketch). (See Wheeler & Wilson.)
Wilson, Newton, [4]
Wilson, (W. G.), Sewing Machine Company, [40]
Woolridge, Keene, and Moore, [24]
Zieber, George, [30], [33]