The Life of Elias Howe

Three Children with Elizabeth

Jane Robinson

Simon Ames

Julia Maria

Elizabeth Jennings Ames Married 1842, Died 1850

Later Remarried to

Rose Halladay

Born July 9, 1819, to Elias Howe and Polly (Bemis) Howes in Spencer Massachusetts

Grows up and spends childhood in Massachusetts

At age 15 (1835) he apprentices in a textile factory in Lowell, Massachusetts

The factory closed in 1837 so Howe moved to Cambridge Massachusetts along with his cousin Nathaniel P. Banks

While in Cambridge, Howe apprentices under Master Mechanic Ari Davis