Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1910 — BARBERA WHO BECAME FAMOUS. [ARTICLE]

BARBERA WHO BECAME FAMOUS.

Hiarh Rank Attained by Many Wleldcra of Strop and Haior. Perhaps the best known of all barbers who have attained fame were" Arkwright, the improver of the spinning jenny, who was said to have turned to mechanics when the wigmaking trade fell off, and Jeremy Taylor, who was brought up in hi 3 father's shaving shop at Cambridge, says London Tit-Bits. Edward Sugden, afterward made Baron St. Leonard, was the son of a hair cutter in a shop in -Lincoln's lan, London. Once when Sugden was addressing a crowd in the interest of his candidacy for parliament a man called out to know what soap cost and how lather was made. “I am particularly obliged to that gentleman,*’ Sir Edward is reported .0 have said, “for reminding me of .my lowly origin. It is true that I am a barber's son and that I myself was once a barber. If the gentleman who so politely reminded me of these facts had been a barber he would have continued to remain one till the end of his life.” Charles Abbott, Baron Tenterden, was also a barber’s son, and it is related how, when he was made a peer of England, hp took his own son to a little Westminster shop and bade him remember it was there that his grandfather had been accustomed to shave Ipthers for a penny. William Falconer, the poet, was a poor barber In Edinburg until ..his poem, “The Shipwreck,” brought hi.ni renown and incidentally a commission in the royal navy. Craggs, associated with the South sea bubble, was a barber turned promoter. He became enormously wealthy, but when the South sea crash came his fortune dwindled and in despair he committed suicide. Giovanni Belzoni of Padua was a barber with .a varied and interesting history. Bel*oni set up a shop in' England, but so<jn tuund more profit in posing at Sadler’s Wells as the “Patagonian Samson.” Being of thrifty temperament, Belzoni accumulated quite a fortune. He achieved lasting fame as the discoverer of interesting relics in thd tombs of Egypt and as a traveler.