Dakota City herald. [volume] (Dakota City, Neb.) 1857-1860, 1860-02-18
GREAT MEN WHO ROSE FROM THE
RANKS.


From the barber shop rose Sir Richard
Arkwrith, the inventor Of the spinning jenny,
aud the founder Of the cotton manufacture Of
Great Britain Lord Tenterden ono Of the
most distinguished Of Engl sh Lord Chief
Justices and Turner, the very greatest Of
landscape painters. No one knows to a Ger.
tainty what Shakespeare was but it Is un-
questionable that be sprang froa a very
humble rank. The common class Of day-la-
borers has given US Brindey, the engineer; /;
Cook, the navigator, and Barns, the pcRt-
Masons and brioklaysrs can boast % their
Ben johnson, who worked at the building Of
Lincoln's Iun, with troWel In his hand and
a book in his pocket Edward and TelfJrd,
the engineers, Hugh Miller the 0oolOgist, and
Allan Cunningham, the writer aud sculptor
whilst amosg the names OF distinguished car
penters we find IGigo JoDes, the ..Architecti
Harrison the chronometer maker, John Hun
ter, the Physiologist, kymuey end Opie,
painters, Professor Lee, the OTiertslst, and
John Gibson, the sculptor. From the WesV-
er class have sprung Simpson, the mathomat
ici8n, Bacon the sculptor, the two MilnerS,
Adam Walker, John Foster. Wilson, the Or
uithologist, DIR. Livingston, the missionary
traveller? and Tannahll, the p ct, shoemak
ers have given US Sturgeon, theielectricisn,
samuelsDrew, the. esssyist, Clifford, the cd
itor OF the Quarterly Review, Bloomfield, the
poet and william Carey, the missionary;
whilst Morrison, another laborious missionary,
was a maker Of shoe lasts. Within the last
year. profound naturalist has been discov-
cred, at Banf, named Thomas Edwards, who
while maintaining himself by his trade, has
devoted his leisure to natural science in all
its branches, his researches in connection with
the smaller crustscee having been rewarded
By the discovery Of new species 10 winch the
name Of Pranize Edeardsii has been given by
usturOlists.
Nor have the talors been altogether uuds-
Jackson the painter having work
ed at that trade until be reached manhood
But Wha is, perhaps, more remarkable, one
C: the gallsntss; of British senmou, Admiral
Hobson, who broke the boom at Vigo, in 1909,
originally belonged TO this calling. He Was
working as aztailOr's apprentice near Bon
eh uroh, in the Isle Of Wight, when the news
dew through the village that squs drou Of
men Of. war we're sailing of the island lie
,praDg from tho shop board aud ran down 20
he beach With his comrades 10 gaze upon the
glorious sight The tailor boy was suddenly
pfamed with the ambition to be B. sailor,
,ud springing into boat, roWed of TO the
quadrOn, gained the admirars ship sud wAs
accepted as volunteer. Years alter he re-
urned 10 his native village, full Of honor, and
linod of bacon aud eggs in the cottage where
le worked rs sn apprentice, Cardinal VOL
10y, DeFoe, Akensido d Kirk White veIe
he sons Of butoLers BuHyan was a tinker
md Joseph Lancaster bssket>msker.--
Among the grcs, names identified with the
team engine are .ha-e OF Nsvcome, Watt aui
.'ephens0n, thehrs, blacksmith, the second
maker Of mathematical, instruments md the
nIri an engine fireman. DR.. Hutton, the
eolozist and PeWioE, the father Of WOOD
ugrayiuE, we're coal miners. DJdsley MAS
iootman aud HolcrOfl @ groom. kutiin, the
ayigstor, was a eommen seaman, and Sir
loudesIy Shovel was d cabin boy iiersonsl
iayed the obos in military and Chant
; Was iJurue man carver Euy journey
ian printer, AID s.r Thoma, LaElencs the
90 % o tavern keeper