He had 24 children. Eighteen of them were born outside his marriage. And in the summer of 1873, the richest man in the world was building his dream m…
By the summer of 1873, the name Singer had reached the Devon coast in the most literal form wealth could take. An unfinished mansion of 115 rooms stood on roughly seventeen acres of landscaped ground above Paignton, a Channel town previously known for fishing boats and sea air. Isaac Merritt Singer, sixty-one years old, was … Read more