San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-08-19
THE FATHERS OF GREAT MEN

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Charles Lamb was a servants son.
The father of COwley was q grocer.
Schumann's father was bookseller
The father or Plus w. was q peas
ant.
The father of Plus V. was shep.
herd.
Tslma, the actor, was a dentists
son.
The father OF Verdi was day la
borer.
Socrates was the son of day la
borer.
Epictetus was the son of day la.
borer.
Oliver Cromwell's father was a
brewer.
Glotto, the artist, was a PEASANTS
son.
The father OF James Mill was a
cobbler.
The father OF Samuel Pepys was a
tailor.
shakespeare's father was wool
merchant.
Powers, the sculptor, was farmers
boy.
The father of Burns was q peasant
farmer.
The father of Goethe was the son of
tailor.
Wagner's father was clerk In pc
lice court.
Sir Isaac Newton's father was a
poor farmer.
The father of DR.. Rush was q farm
labOrer.
Paganini's father was a laborer in q
factory.
DIR. Doddridge was the son of an
oil dealer.
The father of Ely, the colorist, was
miller.
The Danish scholar, Rask, was q
peasants son.
Heuy, the minerslogist, was q
weaver's snn.
Canova, the sculptor, Was stone
cutters son.
John Wesley's father was a country
clergyman.
The Emperor Diocletian was a son
of a slave.
COPY, the artist, was the son OF q
day laborer.
The father of Horne Tooke was q
poultry dealer.
Optics father was a carpenter and
cabinet-maker.
The father of the historian Rollin
was knife maker.
Vandyke's father was q merchant
of limited means.
Cardinal AntOnelli's father was an
Italian bandit.
The composer Quick was the son OF
gamekeeper.
Tythagoras is said to have been the
son Of q soldier.
The father OF Marshal Soult was q
peasant farmer.
The father of Franz Schubert was q
schoolmaster.
Lincoln's father was poor farmer
and laborer.
Hans Christian Anderson's father
was q cobbler.
Dickens father was q POOR clerk in
the navy pay office.
Napoleon's father was q citizen OF
very humble means.
Ashmoie, the great antiquarian,
was q saddler's son.
Murray, the oriental scholar, was q
shepherds son.
Marshal Bernadotte was the son OF
q provincial notary.
The father of Barry, the historical
painter, was sailor.
Marshal Ney was cooper's son,
and himself a notary.
The father OF Adrian, the Ascetic
Pontiff, vas a beggar.
Ssussure, the naturalist, was the
son of a Swiss farmer.
Virgils father was porter, and for
many years q slave.
Massillon, the great French preach.
er, was q notary's son.
Wyatt, the great architect, was the
son of a farm laborer.
The father of NieDubr, tue historian,
was farm laborer.
Tannahill, the Scottish poet, was a
weaveT's son.
PIautus. the Latin Shakespeare. was
the son OF freedman.
The father of Martin Luther was
a peasant and wOodman.
The father of Raehurn, the land
scapist, was stock farmer.
The father of Cardinal Wolsey is
said to have been butcher.
The father of George Frederick
Handel was a country doctor.
Gsussone, the great physician, was
the son of q bricklayer.
Tintoretto, the famous painter, was
the son of dye maker.
Merchant, the Prince OF the Church,
was q carpenter son.
Gesner, the German naturalist, was
the son of q farm carter.
Perugino, the great Italian psiater,
was the son of a peasant.
Alvarez. the Spanish sculptor, was
the SOD of q stoue mason.
Rembrsndt's father is said to have
been q miller and farmer.
The father of Thomas Hood was
dealer in poultry and game.
Marshal st. Cyr was q peddIer's
son, and enlisted as private.