In a divorce suit, at New York . . .

. . . brought by Mary Ann Singer against Isaac M. Singer, the noted sewing machine needle patentee, the court ordered her an allowance of $8,000 per annum, alimony, and her counsel a fee of $750. It was given in [evidence] that Singer’s income was $200,000 a year.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 3