The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1860-02-15
Great Men who Rose from the
Ranks.

From the barber shop rose Sir Richard
Arkwright, the inventor OF the spinning
jenny, and the founder of the cotton manu-
facture of Great Britain; Lord Tenterden,
one of the most distinguished OF English
Lord Chief Justices; and Turner, the very
greatest among landscape painters. No one
knows to certainty what Shakespeare was;
but it is unquestionable that he sprang from
a very humble rank. The common class OF |
day aburers has given us Brimley, the eng.
neer; Cook, the navigator; and Burns, the
poet. Masons and brickIayers can boast or
Ben. Johnson, who worked at the building |
of Lincolns Inn, with trowel in his hand
and book in his pocket; Edwards and Tel |
ford, the engineers; Hugh Miller, the geol.
ogist; and Allen Cunningham, the writer
and sculptor; whilst among distinguished
carpenters we find the names of lingo Jones,
the architect; Harrison, the chronometer
maker; John Hunter, the physiologst
Romney and Obie, painters; Professor Lee,
I the orientalist; and John Gibson, the sculp-
| tor. From the weaver class have sprung
| Simpson, the mathematician; Bacon, the
sculptor; the two Miners, Adam Walker,
John Foster, Wilson, the ornithologist; DR..
Livingstone, the missionary traveller; and
Tannehill, the poet. Shoemakers have
given US Sturgeon, the electrician, Samuel
Drew, the essayist; Clifford, the editor Of the
Quarterly Review; Bloomfield the poet; and
William Carey, the missionary; whilst Nor
rison, another laborious missionary, was a
maker of shoe lasts. Within the last year,
a profound naturalis has been discovered in
the person of a shoemaker, at Bauff, named
Thos. Edwards, who, while maintaining
himself by his trade, has devoted his leisure
to the study of natural science in all its
branches, his researches in connection with
the smaller crustace having been rewarded
by the discovery of new species to which
the name OF Pranza Edcardsii has been given
by naturaists.
Nor have the tsilors been altogether un-
distinguished Jackson, the painter having
worked at that trade until he reached man.
hood. But what is, perhaps, more remarka-
BILE one Of the most gallant OF British seamen
Admiral Hobsou, who broke the boom a
y, Aigo in 1902, originally belonged to tai
u calling. He was working as tailor's ap.
prentice near Bonchurch, in the Isle o
Wight, when the news few through th
village that squadron of men-of war wer,
sailing off the island. He sprang from thu
shop board and ran down with his comrade
to the beach to gaze on the glorious signt
:, The tailor boy suddenly nfamed with th'
" ambition to be sailor, and sprngng into
boat, he rowed off to the squadron, gainet
; the Admral's ship and was accepted as
II volunteer. Years after he returned to hi
! native village, full of honors, and dined Of
,, bacon and eggs, in the cottage where he ha
!" worked as taiior's apprentice. Cardina
- Wolsey, DeFoe, Akenside, and Kirke White
, were sons of butchers; Bunyan was tinker
y and Joseph Lancaster a basket-maker.-
u Among the great names identified with th
il invention of the steam engine are those O
10 Newcomer, Watt and Stevenson; the first
10 black smith, the second a maker of mathe
matical instruments, and the third an engin
u fireman. Dr.. Hutton, the geologist, an
Bewick, the father of wood engraving, wer
" coal miners. Dobsley was footman, an
80 Holcroft a groom. Bufin the navigator
30 was common seaman, and Sir Cloudesl
Ut Shove. cabin boy. Herschel played tn
d obode in military band. Chantrey a jour
H. neyman carver, Etty a journeyman printe
. and Sir Thomas lawrence the son of
- tavern-keeper.
!" Michael Faraday, the son Of poor black
% smith, was in early life apprentice to boo
~ binder, and worked at that trade until !
u reached his ,wenty-second year he no
7" occupies the very first rank as philcsophe
nu excelling even his master, Sir Humphrt
Davy, in the art of luCidly expounding ii
10 most difficult and abstruse points in natur
u" science. Not long ago Sir Roderick MI
d" Gibson discovered, at Thurso, in the
North of Scotland, a profound geologist,
o. the person Of baker there, named Robe
Dick. When Sir Roderck called upon hi
- at the bake house, in which he baked al
'e' earned his bread, Dick deIineated to him,
Nv means Of -four upon board, the geograph
OK cal features and geological phenomena
y his native country, pointing out the impe
tections in the exiting maps, which he b
"e ascertained by travelling over the count
eo in his leisure hours. On further inquir
Sir Rod erick ascertained that the humb
individual before him was not onl capt.
'd' baker and geologist but first rate botani
ne "I found" said the Director General of t
ler Geographical Society, "to my gr eat humil
ia' ton, that this baker knew infinitely more
botanical science, ay, tea times more, tn
l did !; and that there were only some twen
or thirty specimens of flowers which he h
'se not collected, Some he had obtained
ey' presents, some he had purchased but I
In. greater portion had been accumulated by
om industry, in HE native county Of Caithne
u and the specimens were all arranged in Il
- most beautiful order, with their scienti
mo names afixed."--Ssf Help. By Sam
Ine Smiles. sa@i .~.7s.
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