Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1893 — IZAAK WALTON’S BIRTHPLACE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IZAAK WALTON’S BIRTHPLACE.

Where the Quaint Old Fisherman Is Supposed to Have Been Bora. It Is 300 years since Izaak Walton was born, and it is fitting that the tercentenary of bis birth should have been celebrated in this country and

Europe. As much of the life of this most interesting character seems to be enshrouded in impenetrable gloom, anything pertaining to his life and character is at this timj particularly interesting. We print an illustration of the old house in East Gate street, Stafford, England, where he is supposed to have been born. It was here that he probably spent the early days of his youth, following industriously his favorite pastime of Ashing in a near-by brook.

IZAAK WALTON’S BIRTHPLACE