LIST OF SEWING MACHINE COMPANIES, PROPRIETORS AND INVENTORS IN EXHIBITION AT NEW YORK CITY IN 1853-4
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29 Three sewing machines
respectively adapted to sewing woollen goods, muslin, linen fabrics and leathers
Avery Sewing Machine Company
manufacturer 251 Broadway, New York City
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96 Sewing machine
Jonathan A. Ross
manufacturer St. Louis, Missouri
US 10.609 Charles Miller March 7, 1854
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32 Miniature automaton shoe machine
John James Greenough
proprietor, 6 Wall Street, New York City
45 A Sewing machine for making sails
Daniel C. Ambler
inv., man. & prop. 64 Broadway, New York City
46 Improved sewing machine
Abraham Bartholf
man. & prop. 33 Gold St., New York City inventors, Blodgett & Lerow
58 Various sewing machines
Grover, Baker & Co.
inv. & manu, Haymarket Square, Boston, Massachusetts
63 A sewing machine
Freeman Palmer
inv. & prop. Conneaut, Ashtabula County, Ohio
65 A sewing machine
John Batchelder & Co.
manu. Lisbon Cotton Mills, Lisbon, Connecticut
99 Patent sewing machine
Elias Howe, Jr.
pat. & prop. Cambridgeport, Massachusetts 201 Broadway, New York City
136 Boot and leather sewing machine
William Wickersham
inv. & pat. 20 Bulfinch Street, Boston, Massachusetts
138 Improved self-feeding sewing machine
Pearson Crosby
pat. & manu. Fredonia, New York City
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From The Invention of the Sewing Machine, by Grace Rogers Cooper
A William C. Watson machine was exhibited at the 1853 New York Industry of All Nations Exhibition. This was a single-looping machine; Watson received a patent for this single-thread machine on November 25, 1856.