The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . nd his financial aid that it became a was often heard to say, when speaking of themachine, It will become a household article thesame as the sewing-machine. With a bull-
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . nd his financial aid that it became a was often heard to say, when speaking of themachine, It will become a household article thesame as the sewing-machine. With a bull-dog per-tinacity he clung to the work, and when machineafter machine of the few hundred put upon themarket was returned, he would not permit a shadeof discouragement to show itself upon his the contrary, he summoned the best of the skilledworkmen at his command and forced success, wherewith men of less grim courage there would havebeen absolute failure. He lived to reap success anda fortune for the money expended under the mostadverse conditions. He died Sept. 16, 1889, inBrooklyn, N. Y., leaving a widow, but abundantlyprovided for, and a memory that deserves the per-petuation accorded it by appljring his name to oneof the machines asking recognition of public favor,the Densmore, a machine possessing features thathad been omitted from the previous venture, andrank it among the best in the OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 317
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