Robert Simpson

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Husband Robert Simpson ¹

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         Father: John Simpson (      -Bef 1890) 1 2 3
         Mother: Unknown (      -      )

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General Notes: Husband - Robert Simpson

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He was an inventor and manufacturer of note. He was the originator of the improvements embodied in a new Singer sewing machine, and afterwards established a large manufactory and sales house at Glasgow, Scotland. He was very successful and built up a large fortune, finally dying in Italy, where he was visiting.

1 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 511.

2 Editor, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 380.

3 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 1106.