Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1863-10-15
apEAT MEN PROM HUMBLE LIFE.

| From, the BARRIERS shop rose Sil
Richard Arkeright, the inventor Of th,
spipuing-jeDny, and the founder of tn,
cotton nsnufsctare of Great Britain
Lord Tenderden, one Of the most dis
Itinguished Of English Lord Chief Jus
| tices; and Turner, the very creates
among landscape painters. No on,
knows to a certainty what Shakespesr,
was; but it is unquestionable thai b,
spraDg from very humble rank. Tn,
common rank of day laborers has giver
as Brindley, the engineer; Cook. th'
navigator, and Burns, the poet. Ma
sons and brick-layers can boast of Bel
johnson, who worked on the building
of Lincoln's Inn. with trowel in BIZ
hand and a book in bis pocket; Edwards
and Telfords the engineers; Hugh Mil
Ter the geologist, and Allan Cunning
ham, the writer and sculptor; willis
amongst the distinguished carpenters
we find the names of Inigo Jones. the
architect; Harrison, the chronometel
maker; John Hunter, the pbysiologist
Romney and Opie, painters; Prof. Lee
the orientslist; and John Gibson the
sculptor. 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 Tannahill, the
poet. Shoemakers have given us Stur-
geon, the electrician; Samuel Drew,
the esssyist; Clifford, the editor of the
Quarterly RevieD; Bloomfield, the poet;
and William Carey, the missionary
whilst Morrison, another laborIous mis-
sionary was a maker Of shoe lasts.-
Within the past year, profound nat
uralist has been discovered in the per-
son of shoemaker at Banf, named
Thomas Edwards. who, while main-
tanning himself by his trade, has de-
voted his leisure to the study Of natu-
raj science in all IFS branches; his re-
searches in connection with the smaller
crustacea having been rewarded by the
discovery of new species, to which
the name of Pr0niza Edsoardsii has been
given by the naturalists.
Nor have the Tailors been altogether
undistinguished, Jackson, the painter,
having worked at the trade until he
reached manhood. But what is, per-
haps, more remarkable, one of the
most gallant Of British seamen, Ad.
miral Hobson who broke the boom at
Vigo, in 1709, originally belonged to
this calling. Cardinal Wolsey, De
Foe, Akenside, and Kirk White, were
the sons Of butchers; Bunyan was a
tinker, and Joseph Lancaster a basket
maker. Among the great names iden-
tilted with the invention OF the steam
engine are those Of Newcomer, Wait,
and Stephenson; the first a blacksmith,
the second a maker of mathematical
instruments, and the third an engine
fireman. DR.. Hutton the geologist,
and Bewick, the father Of wood en-
craving, were coal miners. Dudsley,
was foOtman and Holcroft groom
Baffin, the navigator, was a common
seaman. and Sir Cloudesley Shovel
cabin boy. Herschel played the oboe
in military band. Chantrey was a
journeyman carver; Etty journeyman
printer; and Sir Thomas Lawrence the
son of tsvern-keeper.
Michael Faraday, the son of poor
blacksmith, was in early life appren-
ticed for book binder, and worked at
the trade until he reached bis twenty
second year; he now occupies the very
first rank as philosopher, excelling
even his master. Sir Humphrey Davy,
in the art Of lucidly expounding the |
most difficult and abstruse points in nat
ural science. Not long ago, Sir Rod
erick Murchison discovered Thurso,
in the far north Of Scotland, a profound |
geologist in the person of baker there, /
named Robert Dick. When Sir Rode
rick called up at the bake house, in
which he baked and earned bis bread,
Dick delineated TO him by means Of
four upon board the geographical
features and geological phenomena of
MS native country, pointing out the
mperfections in the existing maps,
which he had ascertained by trav-
eling over the country in bis leisure
hours. On further inquiry, Sir
Roderick ascertained that the hum
Die individual before him was not only
, capital baker and geologist, but first
rate botanist. 81 found" said the Di-
rector General of the Geographical So
,iety, "to my great humiliation, that
his baker knew more OF botanical
science than ] did, and that there were
'nly some twenty or thirty specimens
of flowers which be had not collected.
Some he had obtained as presents, some
be had purchased; but the greater por-
ion had been accumulated by bis in
iustry, in bis native county Of Cath
less. and the specimens were all ar
'anged in the most beautiful order, with
heir scientific names affixed Self
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