Well, Elias Howe Jr. was born on July 9, 1819 in Spencer Massachusetts parents were Elias Howe Senior and Polly (Bemis) Howe. He married Elizabeth Jennings Ames on March 3, 1841. He had three...
Elias Howe was the inventor of the first practical sewing machine, and took out a patent on the first American made one. He continued pioneering work on the sewing machine, and you can read more...
Howe is credited with inventing the sewing machine in 1846. William Thomas had a patent for a sewing, quilting, stitching machine in 1790, but it was not marketed.