St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-10-22
THE FATHERS OF GREAT MEN
AN Interesting Compilation That is
Worth Keeping for Reference.

Milton was the son of a copyist.
Mozart's father was a bookbinder.
Charles Lamb was servants son.
The father of Cowley was grocer.
The father of Plus ~. was peasant.
Schumann's father was bookseller.
The father of Plus Y. was shepherd.
Talma, the actor, was a dentists son.
The father of Verdi was day laborer
Socrates was the son of a day laborer.
Epictetus was the son of day laborer
Giotto, the artist, was a peasant Is
Eon.
The father of James Mills was cob
bier.
The father of Samuel Pepys was a
tailor.
Shakspeares father was wool mer-
chant.
Powers, the sculptor, was a farmers
boy.
The father of Burns was peasant
farmer.
The father of Goethe was the son of a
tailor
Wagner's father was clerk in q police
court.
Sir Isaac Newton's father was a poor
farmer
Paganini's father was laborer in a
factory.
The father of Ely, the colorist, was a
miller
The Danish scholar, Rask, was peas
ants SON.
Hauy, the mineralogist, was weaver's
son.
Canova, the sculptor, was a stonecut-
ter's son.
The Emperor of Diocletian was the son
Of slave.
COPY, the artist, was the son of day
laborer.
The father of Horne Tooke was poul-
try dealer.
Opie's father was carpenter and cabi-
netmaker.
The father of the historian, Rollin, was
a knifemaker.
Vandyke's father was merchant of
limited means.
The composer, Gluck, was the son of a
gamekeeper.
Pythagoras is said to have been the son
The father of Marshal Soult was peas
ant farmer.
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schoolmaster
Lincoln's father was poor farmer and
laborer.
Hans Christian Andersen's father was
cobbler.
Dickens father was poor clerk in the
navy pay office.
Napoleon's father was a citizen of very
humble means.
Ashmole, the great antiquarian, was
saddler's son.
Murray, the oriental scholar, was
shepherds son.
Marshal Bernadotte was the son of
provincial notary.
The father of Barry, the historical
painter, was sailor.
Marshal Ney was cooper's son, and
himself notary.
Saussure, the naturalist was the son of
Swiss farmer.
Virgils father was porter, and for
many years a slave.
Massillon, the great French Preacher,
was notary's son.
Wyett, the great architect, was the
son of farm laborer.
The father of Niebuhr, the historian,
was a farm labOrer.
Tannahill, the Scottish poet, was a
weaver's son.
Plautus, the Latin Shakespeare, was
the son of freedman.
The father of Cardinal Wolsey is said |
to have been butcher.
The father of George Frederick Han
del was country doctor.
Gaussone, the great physician, was
the son of bricklayer.
Tintoretto, the famous painter, was
the son of dye maker.
Mezzofanti, the Price, of the Church,
was carpenters son.
Gesner the German naturalist, was the
son of farm carter.
Perugino, the great Italian painter, was
the son of peasant.
Alvarez, the Spanish sculptor, was the
son of stonemason.
Rembrandt's father is said to have been
miller and farmer.
The father of Thomas Hood was a
dealer in poultry and game.
Marshal St. Cyr was a peddler's son
and enlisted as private.
Murat was an inn-keeper's son, and
intended for the priesthood.
Fishbein, the great his torical painter,
was the son of a baker.
Magliabecchi, the linguist, was the son
of a vegetable peddler.
Farinelli, the wonderful male soprano.
was the son of miller.
The father of Edward Irving, the great
divine, was tanner.
Sallust was the son of slave, or as
some say, of freedman.
Blake, the poet, engraver and painter,
was the son of hosier.
The father of Spontini, the opera COM
poser, was farm laborer.
The father of Diderot, the encyclo-
pedist, was knife grinder.
The Roman Emperor Maximian was the
son of q common soldier.
The father of Thorwaldsen, the sculp-
tor, was ship carpenter.
Rosseau, the author of "Emile, was
the son of matchmaker.
Clifford, the poet, was sailors son,
and himself shoemaker
The father of David Livingstone was
an operator in a cotton mill.
Franklin was the son of soap-boiler,
and was himself printer.
Marshal Lannes was carpenters son,
and himself an apprentice.
Ramus, the divine, was the son of
laborer, and himself servant.
Demosthenes was the son of sword
maker and blacksmith.
The father of Sir Robert Peel, the
statesman, was day laborer.