His father owned a textile factory in Barmen, as well as part of a cotton factory in Manchester, England. He dropped out a year before graduation after attending high school. His father had pushed him to work at the factory, where he worked for about three years. While living in Bremen he had published articles under the name Fredrick Oswald. He volunteered for a year in an artillery regiment in Berlin. Upon leaving the army, he met Moses Hess, the man who introduced him to communism. He had decided to pursue a business degree and went to work in the family business in Manchester. . He took notes about child labor and the lives of workers. While living in Manchester he met Mary Burns, a typical uneducated working girl, with whom he lived as husband and wife, but was never married. Engels returned to Germany in 1844 where he met Marx in Paris. With the help of Marx, he published two articles: “The Holy Family” and “The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844”. IN 1848, Marx and Engels saw an opportunity to participate in 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 own country, Prussia. He received help funding the writings of Karl Marx and supported his work. Mary died at 1863,