| Show shoemakers OF HISTORY THE death of john greenleaf Green lef whittier who in early life was a oboes homemaker hoe maker a ker has prompted enterprising literary per sons bons to lo search the volumes of universal history for other distinguished cobblers thle this trade has been called ever since the days daya of the romans tithe he gentle craft s and whatever there is ia about it that condu conduces to intellectuality the shoemaking trade has baa furnished more distinguished learned men than any other of the crafts Th the eaury estory of st crispin is more or lose less familiar to all rescuers of newspapers he lived in the che time of the aman emperor he embraced christianity and had to fly from rome borne to france he settled in the town now called yoi saona as ai a shoemaker and at the same time became sin an ardent preacher of christianity the legendary stories relating to him state that he used to steal leather from the rich to make shoos shoes for the poor by reason of his bia aggressiveness an aa a christian he suffered death on october 25 A D and on this date falls annually as whittler calls it gay bt 81 Orlo pins day hans hann a german cobbler to in characterized as aa tithe the nightingale of the lutheran reformat reformation ione his songs gongs did as aa much as aa luthers sermons to spread the new dew religion he died at the age of eighty two and left a reputation as aa an excellent shoemaker and a great poet william carey the distinguished oriental scholar blegan life as a shoo ahoe maker he was wai the first to carry the bible into the eat east indies he translated it into bengali and several other dialects lie he even compiled grammars gramman of those languages which are cou reliable today robert bobert bloomfield 9 the shoemaker ahoe maker poet composed his hia farmer carmera Far mera blyss boy while working with five others othere at the trade in a garret this poem brought him recognition fram the nobility of england drew was wa another eminent cobbler who attained celebrity by his hie reply to Is PaInes Pal nce age of reason 41 Per perhaps hips the moat eminent cobbler of all the craft is in sir Clou deeley shovel chis norfolk lad began life au as a shoe in bakera kerse apprentice in 1692 1662 his hia monument in westminster West abbey now bears bean the in knights knight rear bear ad miral of great britain admiral and commander in chitsu of the fleet 21 samuel bradburn a poor cobbler was waa for forty years known an aa the DO de woe of methodism thomaa cooper the famous leader of the english chartist movement worked eight years on the cobblers cobb lera bench he spent two years in Staf stafford rord jail while there he wrote the rhe purgatory 0 of f suicides idea his works comprise com IL ft dozen bulky volumes james lackington a cobbler became owner of the biggest book shop la the world pa in finsbury ainsbury Fins bury square london Lon lon william who be came editor of the london quarterly review began life an a a cobbler among the american cobblers who achieved fame as literary men are john whittier noah worcester roger boger sherman Bh ermaD the friend of thomas jefferson henry wilson vice dent of the united states and later thomas edward the scotch naturalist whose remarkable life and achiel ments have been made I 1 he theme of one of the most attractive works written by mr samuel smiles the noted english author |
