The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1869-01-23
SenG.VEaOe Men.

Homer, the Prince of Poets, it is said. was ;
oeggar; Esop, the immortal author of the fables
which bear his name, was Phrygian slave
virgil the hrst OF Roman poets was bakers
| son; Cervantes, the author of Don Quixote, waf
common soldier; Christopher Columbus. the
discoverer of the New World, was weaver
Shakespeare, the glory of the British drama, was
| = wool-stapler at Avon Sir Francis Drake was
shepherds son Ben Johnson was bricklaver
captain Cook was cabin boy; the celebrated
Cardinal Wolsey was the son of a butcher and
the more celebrated Oliver Cromwell was the son
OF brewer; the immortal John Milton was a
school-master, $50 coming down to our own time)
was Martin Van Buren,, late President of the
United States; Bunyan, the author of "The
Pilgram's Progress" was tinker: Dan'l Defoe.
author OF Robinson Crusoe, served his time as
hostler at Cornhill; Alexander Pope was the son
OF merchant; Watt, the inventor of steam en-
glhes, was an instrument maker at Greenock ;
burns, the sweetest bard that ever breathed the
soothing strain, was II plowman Sir Richard
Arkwrlght the most ingenious of mechanical
inventors, was barber; Haley, the ilustrious
astronomer, was the son of a soap boiler; Fer
guson and Hogg were shepherds Rollin, the
historian of the ancient world, wasa cutters son !:
Sir William Herschell, the eminent astronomer.
was the son of a musician Sir Humphrey Davv,
the inventor OF the safety lamp, was carpenters
son; John Hunter, the greatest anatomist the
world has ever seen, was carpenter; Adam
Clarke, the eminent scholar and divine, was a
poor Irish boy, and was sent by Wesley to Kings
wool school, and while working in the garden is
SAID to have found half guinea with which he
bought Hebrew Testament; Hogarth was an
engraver OF pewter pots; Clifford, the critic and
Bloomfield, the poet, were shoemakers: the
learned Prideau, the biographer of Mahomet
was employed to sweep Exester College Currau.
the DeInosthenes of Ireland was the son of a
County OF Cork seneschal; Samuel Lee, charity
BOY and carpenter, occupied the chair of ORR
entail Languages In the University of Cambridge;
William Abbott, the most correct writer of the
English language, at first field laborer and
then common soldier Hugh Miller, the emf.
nently gifted geologist, and one OF the most pow
er1ul writers OF the present century, and whose
mornful death caused much sorrow through
the world, was a stone-cutter or a mason ; Sir
William Blackstone, the learned commentator of
the laws of England was the son of linen
draper Lord st. Leonards one of the greatest |
common-law lawyers England has produced |
and q Lord Chancellor, was the son of cutler : |
Lord Tenterden, late Chief Justice of Eng.
land, and one of Englands greatest and most en-
hghtened Judges, was the son of Charles Abbott,
Canterbury barber, or hair dresser and when
a boy the gi eat Chief Justice himself helped his |
father in his humble trade: the late Lord Iynd-
''' "'hi"S'i' "S i1oiu OiiaHceiior, Us an orator,
statesman, lawyer and judge, was the son of a
Boston painter; Lord Campbell, so we'll known
a. great Judge, lawyer and author, was the son
OF Presbyterian minister, and a reporter to the
press; George Stephenson, the illustrious author
OF the locomotive railway system, which now
prevails throughout the civilized world COM
menced life rs laboring man, and the first
peShy he ever earned was as cowherd to the
widow Grace Ainslie, of the farmhouse of Dew
", in Northumberland Abraham Lincoln, the
late President of the United States, was at one
time raftsman, and Andrew johnson, the pre-.
sent President, was tailor.