Nathaniel Wheeler was the founder and executive of many companies in Bridgeport, CT in the 1800's. He owned numurous manufacturing companies and land all over, around Bridgeport, Ct including the site of his mansion on Golden Hill Street, presently occupied by the City Hall after his long time mansion was pulled down in the 1950s. Bridgeport is the name of a number of places in the United States of America: Bridgeport, Alabama Bridgeport, California Bridgeport, Chicago Bridgeport, Connecticut - by far the largest city with this name Bridgeport, Illinois Bridgeport, Michigan Bridgeport, Ohio Bridgeport, New Jersey Bridgeport, Pennsylvania Bridgeport, Washington Bridgeport, West Virginia See also: Bridgeport...
One of the larger companies was Wheeler and Wilson, mfg of sewing machines sold throughout the world and later Singer Sewing Machines.
WHEELER, Nathaniel, inventor, born in Watertown, Connecticut, 7 September, 1820.
Wheeler to join in that enterprise, and in 1852 the machine was patented in the firm-name of Wheeler and Wilson.
Wheeler's knowledge of machinery and his ability as an organizer enabled him to expand the sewing-machine manufacture from the little factory that could make but one machine a day to an establishment that has facilities for producing 600 machines a day.
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