His father owned a textile factory in Barmen, as well as part of a cotton plant in Manchester, England. He dropped out a year before graduation after attending secondary school. His father had pushed him to work in a factory, where he remained for about three years. While living in Bremen he had published articles under the name Fredrick Oswald. He volunteered for a year in the artillery regiment in Berlin. After his discharge from the Army, he met Moses Hess, the man who introduced him to Communism. He had decided to pursue further business education and dedicated himself to the family business in Manchester. . He took notes on child labor and what life was like for workers. While living in Manchester, he met Mary Burns, a typical uneducated working girl, with whom he lived as husband and wife, but never married. Engels returned to Germany in 1844 where he met Marx in Paris. He published two articles with the help of Marx “The Holy Family” and “The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844”. IN 1848 Marx and Engels saw an opportunity to become part of a Revolution. The Communist Congress in London adopted the views of Marx and Engels and published the Communist Manifesto in 1848. They found that most of the conflict was taking place in their country, Prussia. He helped finance Karl Marx's writings and supported his work. Maria died in 1863,