[Grow Your Own Clothes] had finally found their ideal sewing machine for doing zig-zag stitches (/\/\/\) and converting to a treadle drive (mechanically foot-fed) — a Singer 411G. This is a well ...

Upon his death, his two sons-in-law carried on his business, but by the mid 1880s the Howe Machine Co. had gone out of business. The company of one of Howe’s earliest competitors, Isaac Singer, went ...