Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 190, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1917 — Gave Thimble to England. [ARTICLE]

Gave Thimble to England.

= The man who introduced thimbles to England was John Lofting, a mechanic and metal worker of Holland, who settled in England in the latter part of the seventeenth century, and practiced their manufacture in various metals, with great success.