Isaac Merritt Singer was born on October 27, 1811 in Troy, New York to a large family of German immigrants.

When he was twelve he left home and went to Rochester and worked all kinds of unskilled labor jobs until he was 19 years old. He found a job as an apprentice machinist in a machine shop. He didn't like this job, so after four months he left and for the next nine years moved from state to state and made a good living because of his natural mechanical ability. He got a lot of experience from doing this because he worked on anything that he could get paid for.

In 1830 he quit working as a machinist and became an actor because he had a loud voice and thought he would be good at it. He really enjoyed doing this, but could not make enough money to keep him in the lifestyle that he enjoyed. He wasn't happy about giving up acting, but had to go back to the boring life of a machinist. Singer spent the rest of his life claiming great success as a stage actor.

In 1931 he married Catharine Maria Haley. He was almost twenty years old and she was only fifteen. They l

George Zieber, and went about inventing a device to do this. His first efforts ended suddenly when an explosion in the building where he rented space destroyed his prototype. In the months it took to find another backer, rent a second manufacturing facility, make another machine, and promote a sales location, new technologies in printing almost caused his invention to be obsolete before it was even built.

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This left Isaac Singer and George Zieber as sole partners without any written agreements. Singer felt he needed someone to handle the company's legal and financial matters and brought in another third partner, New York attorney Edward Clark. Mr. Zieber, who had borrowed in order to support Singer's work and family, now needed to repay his debts so he decided to resolve the contract issue with Singer. The company was making a profit and Zieber's creditors were asking to be paid what they had loaned to finance the Singer Company's startup costs. Zieber brought up the subject with Singer and he flew into a rage, refusing to discuss his request or the unpaid loans. George Zieber went to Edward Clark for legal advice, but he didn't know that he was a partner. Clark told him point blank that no binding agreement existed with Singer and that he might be better off taking a small cash settlement and getting rid of the partnership. A short time later in 1851, the final patent rights for Singer's machines were issued, they all were assigned solely and equally to Singer and Clark. George Zieber, the man who financed the beginning of the Singer Company and who personally maintained Isaac Singer and his family through all of the bad years, was excluded and left with nothing to do but to sign an agreement now forced on him by Clark. Singer and Clark owned the patent rights they believed would earn them millions, and Zieber was to receive a third of the company's profits, excluding any revenue generated by the patents.

Now that he was working in a print shop, Singer almost immediately saw a need for a machine that would automatically shape and produce the large wood letters that were used to set newspaper and advertising headlines. He borrowed money from a Philadelphia businessman,

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