Singer Corporation is an American manufacturer of consumer sewing machines,first established as I. M. Singer &Co. in 1851 by Isaac M. Singer with New York lawyer Edward C. Clark. Best known for its sewing machines,it was renamed Singer Manufacturing Company in 1865,then the Singer Company in 1963. It is based in La Vergne,Tennessee,near Nashville. Its first large factory for mass production was built in 1863 in Elizabeth,New Jersey.
Oakdale is a hamlet in Suffolk County,New York,United States. The population was 7,974 at the 2010 census. Oakdale is in the Town of Islip. It has been home to Gilded Age mansions,the South Side Sportsmen's Club,and the main campus of Dowling College. It is now home to Connetquot River State Park Preserve.
Isaac Merritt Singer was an American inventor,actor,and businessman. He made important improvements in the design of the sewing machine and was the founder of what became one of the first American multi-national businesses,the Singer Sewing Machine Company.
William Avery Rockefeller Jr. was an American businessman and financier. Rockefeller was a co-founder of Standard Oil along with his elder brother John Davison Rockefeller. He was also part owner of Anaconda Copper Company,which was the fourth-largest company in the world in the late 1920s. He was a prominent member of the Rockefeller family.
William Kissam "Willie" Vanderbilt I was an American heir,businessman,philanthropist and horsebreeder. Born into the Vanderbilt family,he managed his family's railroad investments.
Frederick William Vanderbilt was a member of the American Vanderbilt family. He was a director of the New York Central Railroad for 61 years,and also a director of the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad and of the Chicago and North Western Railroad.
Dark Island,a prominent feature of the Saint Lawrence Seaway,is located in the lower (eastern) Thousand Islands region,near Chippewa Bay. It is a part of the Town of Hammond,in St. Lawrence County,New York.
Alfred Corning Clark I was an American philanthropist and patron of the arts.
Stephen Carlton Clark was an American art collector,businessman,newspaper publisher and philanthropist. He founded the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown,New York.
Edward Cabot Clark was an American lawyer,businessman and investor.
Edwin Gould Sr. was an American investor and railway official.
Indian Neck Hall was a country residence of Frederick Gilbert Bourne,president of the Singer Sewing Machine Company. Located on the Great South Bay in Oakdale,New York,it was reputed to have been the largest estate on Long Island when it was built in 1897.
Frederick Ambrose Clark was an American heir and equestrian.
Sir Douglas Alexander,1st Baronet was a British-born Canadian industrialist.
Oliver Burr Jennings was an American businessman and one of the original stockholders in Standard Oil.
Robert Goelet Jr. was an American heir,businessman and yachtsman from New York City during the Gilded Age.
Edmund Cogswell Converse was an American businessman,banker and baseball executive. He was a steel industry executive and participated in mergers that unified much of the American steel industry. Later,continuing an association with J. P. Morgan,he was the first president of Bankers Trust. Late in his life,he consolidated 20 farms to create the 1,481-acre (599 ha) tract known as Conyers Farm in Greenwich,Connecticut. Conyers Farm remained unoccupied for 15 years after Converse's death.
The Bourne Windmill,Oakdale,New York was an American farm design tower windmill,built in 1911 by Commodore Frederic G Bourne,as part of a farm in Oakdale,New York. It was located north of his South Shore estate,known as Indian Neck Hall,which later became LaSalle Military Academy. The windmill was demolished in 2004–2005.
Sidney Dillon Ripley was an American insurance executive and prominent member of New York society during the Gilded Age.
Walter Jennings was an American industrialist who served as president of National Fuel Gas Company and the Jekyll Island Club.
