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==Adult life and legacy== [[File:Elias Howe, commemorative stamp, 5c 1940 issue.jpg|thumb|Howe commemorative, 1940 issue]] Between 1854 and 1871/72, Elias's older brother, Amasa Bemis Howe (died in 1868), and later his son Benjamin Porter Howe, owned and operated a factory in New York City, producing sewing machines under the name of the ''Howe Sewing Machine Co''., which won a gold medal at the London Exhibition of 1862. Between 1865 and 1867, Elias himself established The ''Howe Machine Co''. in Bridgeport, Connecticut, that was operated by Elias's sons-in-law, the Stockwell Brothers, until about 1886. Elias Howe's sewing machine won a gold medal at the Paris Exhibition of 1867,<ref name="nihf"/> and that same year he was awarded the [[Légion d'honneur]] by [[Napoleon III]] for his invention.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.nndb.com/honors/139/000048992/ | title= French Legion of Honor Recipients | publisher= NNDB-Biographic Data Base | access-date= November 9, 2009}}</ref> In 1873, Benjamin P. Howe sold the Howe Sewing Machine Co. factory and name to the Howe Machine Co., which merged the two companies. Elias Howe died at age 48, on October 3, 1867, of gout and a massive blood clot. He was buried in [[Green-Wood Cemetery]] in [[Brooklyn, New York]]. His second wife, Rose Halladay, who died on October 10, 1890, is buried with him. Both Singer and Howe were multi-millionaires.<ref>[http://www.history.rochester.edu/scientific_American/mystery/howe.htm Elias Howe, 19th Century Scientific American Online] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070320213630/http://www.history.rochester.edu/Scientific_American/mystery/howe.htm |date=March 20, 2007 }}</ref> Howe's father died two months later on December 28, 1867, one day after his 75th birthday. Howe was commemorated with a 5-cent stamp in the Famous American Inventors series issued October 14, 1940.<ref>"[http://arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=1&cmd=1&mode=1&tid=2028641 5-cent Howe]", Arago: people, postage & the post, Smithsonian National Postal Museum, viewed September 28, 2014.</ref> The 1965 [[Beatles]] movie ''[[Help! (film)|Help!]]'' is dedicated to his memory. <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/elias-howe-sewing-machine-inventor-gets-little-help-beatles/|title=Elias Howe, Sewing Machine Inventor, Gets a Little Help From the Beatles|date=July 10, 2017}}</ref> In 2004 he was inducted into the United States [[National Inventors Hall of Fame]].<ref name=nihf/> {{clear}}
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