The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1861-12-19
Great Men Who Rose from
the Ranks.

ara hEkWFl9nL5 lne inventor OF tNN
5pinning-ionuy, and the founder Of the
cotton manufacture Of Great Britain;I
Lord Tonderden, a very distinguished
English Lord Chief Justice; aud Tur-
ner, the greatest among landscape paint
ors. No one knows Co O certainty what
Shakespeare was, but it is unquestionable
that he sprang from a very humble rank.
The common class of day-laborcrs has
given Us Brindlcy, the engineer; Cook,
the navigator; and Burns, the poet
MasOns aud bricklayers can boast Of
Ben johnson, who worked at the build.
ing Of Linooln's Inn, with trowel 10
his hand, and book in his pocket; Ed
wards and TelfOrd, the engineers; Hugh
Miller, the geologist; and Allen Gun
ningham, the writer and sculptor;
whilst among distinguished carpenters,
we find the names Of lingo Jones, the
architect; Harrison, the chronometef-
maker; John Hunter, the Psychologist;
Romney and Opie, the painters; Profess
sor Lee, the Orientalst; and John Glib
son, the sculptor. From the weaver
class have sprung Simpson, the mathe-
matician, Bacon, the sculptor; the two
Miners, Adam Walker, John Foster,
Wilson, tho ornithologist; DR.. Living
stone, the missionary traveller, aud Tan
nahill, the poet. Shoomakors have Civ
en- US Sturgeon, the electrician; Samuel
Drew, the essayist; Clifford, the editor
ofthe Quarterly Review; Bloomfield, the
poet; and William Carey, the missiona-
ry; whilst Morrison, another laborious
missionary, was a maker of shoe-lasts
Within the last year, a profound natu,
ralist has been discovered in the person
Of a shoemaker at Banf, named Thomas
Edwards, who, while ma'ntlining himselt
| by his trade, has devoted his leisure
to the study Of natural science in all it.
branches, his researches, in connection
with the smaller crustacem, having beer
rewarded by the discovery Of a new
species, to which the name of Pranjzc
Edt0ard8ii has been given by natural
lists.
Nor have tailors been altogether un
distinguished, jackson, the painter
having worked at the trade until hl
reached manhood; but what is, perhaps
more remarkable, one of the gallantest 0
British seamen, Admiral Hobson, wht
broke the boom at Vigo in 1902, origin
ally belonged to this calling. He wa
working as a tailor's apprentice, near
Bonchurch, in the Isle of Wight, wher
the news flew through the village tha
a squadron of men-of-war we're sailing
off the island He sprang from tn,
shop-board, and ran down with his com
rades to the beach to gaze upon thu
glorious sight. The tailor boy waI
suddenly inAamed with the ambition o
being sailor, and springing into
boat he rowed off to the squadron
gained the admiral's ship, and was ac
cepted as a volunteer Years after. he
returned to his native village, full of
hOnOrs, and dinod off bacon and eggs il
the cottage where he had worked as
tailor's apprentice. Cardinal Wolsey
De Poe, Akenside, and Kirkc White
were the sons Of butchers; Bunyan was
a tinker, and Joseph Lancaster a bas
ket-maker. Among the great name,
identified with the invention of steam
engines are those Of Newcomer, Watt
and Stevenson-the first blacksmith
the second a maker of mathematical in
lstruments, and tho third an engine-fre
man. DR.. Hutton, the geologist, an,
Bewick, the father of wood engraving
were coal-miners. Dodsley was a foot
man, and Holcroft a groom. Bafin,
the navigator was a common seaman
and Sir Cloudsley Shovel a cabin boy
Ierschel played the oboe in a militar,
band Chantrey was iourneymar
carver Etty, journeyman printer; an,
Sir Thomas Lawrence, the son Of tav
ern keeper.
Michael Furaday, the son Of poo
blacksmith, was in early life apprentice,
to a bookbinder, and worked at tha
trade until he reached his twentv-sec
ond year; he now occupies the YER,
first rank as a philosopher, excellinl
even his master, Sir Humphrey Davy
in the art Of lucidly cxpounding thr
most difficult and abstruse points in nat
ural science. Not long ago Sir Roder.
lex Murchison discovered, at Thurso
in the far north Of Scotland, a profonnC
geologist, in the person Of baker there
named Robert Dick. When Sir Roder
ick called upon him at tho bakehouse
in which he baked aud earned his bread
Dick dolineated to him, by means of
-four upon a board, the gcographica
features and geological phenomena of
his native county. pointing out the i'm
Perfeetions in the existing maps, whicl
he had asccrtained by travelling over IN,
county in his leisure hours. On furthe
inquiry, Sir Roderick ascertuined tha
the humble individual before him wal
not only capital baker and gsologist
but q hrst-rate botauist. al found,
Uaid the Director-General Of tho Geo
graphical Society, ''to my great hunili
alton, that this baker knew ininitel
more Of botanical scienoo-ay, ten time
more than l did, and that there wer
only some twenty or thirty specimen
Of flowers which he had not collected
Some he had obtained as presents; som,
he had purchased; but the greater Dor
ton had been accumulated by his ia
dustry in his native county Of Cath
ness; and the specimens we're all arrang
ed in the most beautiful order, wit
their scientific names affixed. "-TSeli
Help, by Samuel Smiles.
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