Person:Robert Newell (8)

Watchers
Robert Newell
b.1803 Newburgh, Orange, New York, United States
d.1854 New York City, New York, United States
Add Parents and Siblings
Spouse and Children
(edit)
  1. Robert Henry Newell1836 - 1901
Add another spouse & children
Facts and Events
Name Robert Newell
Gender Male
Birth[1] 1803 Newburgh, Orange, New York, United States
Marriage to Anne Lawrence
Death[1] 1854 New York City, New York, United States
References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 son Robert Henry Newell, in White, James Terry. 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. (New York: J.T. White, 1893 - )
    11:528.

    - established Day & Newell, lock manufacturer
    - inventor and patentee of the Parautoptic bank lock, the distinctive feature of which was a key permitting unlimited combinations to which the lock readily adjusted itself, so that it could be changed daily
    - perfected the first practical sewing machine which antedated the Howe machine several years
    - awarded a gold medal at the 1851 World's fair of London and at the World's fair of Vienna

Retrieved from "https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Robert_Newell_%288%29"