The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1860-04-27
Great Men who Rose from the Ranks.

From the barber shop rose Sir Richard
Arkwright, tho invontor OF tho spinning.
Jenny, and the founder Of the cotton manu-
factures Of Great Britain; Lord Ton,erden,
one of tho most distinguished o! English
Lord Chief Justices and TurHer, the very
greatest among landscape painters. No
one knows certainly what Shakespeare
was; but it is rnquostionable that he
sprang from a very humble rank. The
common class of day laborors has given US
Brindlcy the engineer; Cook, the navigator;
aud Burns, tho poet. Masons and Brick. |
layers can bosst of Bon johnson, who
worked at the building OF Lincoln's Iun.
with trowol in his hand aud book In his
pocket; Edwards and Telford. the engineers;
Hugh Miller. the gcoloaist; and Allen Gun
ningham, tho writer and sculptor; whilst
among distinguished carpenters we find the
names of lingo Jonos, tho architect; lisrri-
son, tho chronometor maker; John H0ntor,
tho psychologist; Romney and Obie, paint
ers; Professor Lee. tho Orientalist; aud
John Gibson,tho scul lptor. From the ~eav-
er class havo sprung Timpson, tho matho-
u,aticau; Bacon. the sculptor; tho two
Minors, Adam Walker. John Foster, Wilson.
tho ornithologist; Dr.. Livingstone. the mis-
siouary traveller; and Tnnnehll, tho poet.
Shoemakers have given us Sturgeon. the
electrician; Samuel Drew, the essayist |;
Clifford tho editor of tho Quarterly Reuietc;
Bloomfield. tho poet; and William Caroy,
tho missionary; whilst Morrison, another
laborious missionary, was a maker of shoe
lasts. Within tho last year, q profound
naturals. has been discovered Ia tho person
of q shoemaker. at Bauff, named Thos. Ed
wards, who. while maintaining himself by
his trsdo. has devoted his leisure to the
study of natural science in al! its branches,
his researches in connection with the small
or crustacp having boon rewarded by tho
disco very Of o now species to which the
name of Pranza Edcardcii has been given
by naturalists.
Nor havc tho tailors been altogether un-
distinguished; jackson, the painter, having
worked 1t that trade until he reached man
hood. But what is, perhaps, more remark.
able ore of the most gallant of British sea-
men, Admiral Hebson. who broke tho boom
at Aigo in 1902. originally belonged to this
calling. He was working as tailors ap-
prentice near Bonchurch. in tho Isle of
| Wight, when tho uews few through the
village that a squadron Of men ofwsr wore
sailing off the island. He sprang from tho
shop board and ran down with his comrades
to tho bea ch to guze, on tho glorious sight.
Tho tailor boy suddenly inhamed with tho
ambition to DO sailor, and springing into o
boat, he rowc6 off to tho squadron. gained
tho Admiral's ship and was accepted as n
volunteer. Years after no returned to his
native village, full of bonors, and dined on
bacon and eggs, in tho cottage where be
had worked as n tailor's apprentice. Car
ddal Woolsoy, DeFoo, Akensidc. aud Kirke
White, woro sons of butchers; Bunyan was
q tinker, and Joseph Lancaster basket.
maker Among tho great names Unidentified
with the invention of tho steam engine are
those Of Newcomer, Watt and Stevenson
the first blacksmith. tho second q maker
! Of mathematical instruments, and tho third
an engine fireman. DR.. Hutton, tho geolo
gist, and Bewick, the father of wood engra.
wing, were coal miners. Dobsley was foot
man, and Holcroft u groom. Bufin tho
navigator, was a common seaman, and SiI
CiouJcsly Shove, cabin boy. Horche
PLAYED the oboe in q military band. Chan
trcv n iournoymun carver, Eity journey
man printer and Sir Thomas Lawrence the
son of atavorn-kccper
Michael Faraday, tho son of poor black
smith, was in early life apprentice to book
binder. and worked at that trade until ht
reach, d his twenty second year; he nov
occupies the VCTy nTBt rank hb pIiiosOVhci
cxcelling oven his master Sir Humphre,
Dlvy, in the art of luodiy oxpounding tho
most difficult snd Hbstruso points in nntura
science. Not iorg ago Sir Roderck Mur
Gibson discovered, ut Thurso. in the fa'
North of Scotland, n profound geologist II
tho person of baker there. named Rober
Dick. When Sir Roderick called upor
him at the bako house, in which he bako'
aud earuo6 his bread, Dick dolineatod Il
him, by means of -four upon board. tb
eeoara phical features aud geological phe
nomena of his native country. pointing on
the impcrfections in tho existing maps
which ho had ascortained by travelling ove
tho couDtry in his loisurn hours. On fur
thor inquiry, Sir Roderick aseertsined tha
the humble individual before him was no
, only o capital baker and geoiogist but
D first rate botanist. ii eouDd," said tho ID
4 rector General of tho Geographical Society
"to my great humiliation, that this bake
!, knew infinitely moro of botanical science
D nay, ten times more, than did and tha
there were only some twenty or thirty specl
q mems of flowors which he had not collected
J Some he had obtained as presents, some b
? had purchased but the greater portion ha'
! been accumulated by his industry, in hi
{ native county Of Caithpess. and the spocl
J, mems wero oil arranged in the most beaut'
, full order. with their scientific names afilxed,
o -SriC Hsip. By Samuel Smiles.