Inspired by a Christmas book I got from my sweetheart on Noah Webster, an American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English spelling reformer, political writer, editor, and prolific author. He has been called the “Father of American Scholarship and Education” and well known for the Merriam-Webster Dictionary.
Noah Webster
I’m on Art Zone again!
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This time I was profiled by Matt McNaghten.
Jim Fisk
From Wikipedia:
Fisk was born in the hamlet of Pownal, Vermont in the township of Bennington on April Fool’s Day. After a brief period in school, he ran away in 1850 and joined Van Amberg’s Mammoth Circus & Menagerie. Later, he became a hotel waiter, and finally adopted the business of his father, a peddler. He applied what he learned in the circus to his peddling and grew his father’s business. He then became a salesman for Jordan Marsh, a Boston dry goods firm. A failure as a salesman, he was sent to Washington, D.C., in 1861 to sell textiles to the government. By his shrewd dealing in army contracts during the Civil War, and, by some accounts, cotton smuggling across enemy lines (in which he enlisted the help of his father), he accumulated considerable wealth, which he soon lost in speculation.
Sombrero and Blanket
Carson Robison
One of the grandfathers of American Country music, Carson Robison started out as a trick whistler who could whistle two tunes at one time. He went on to make the landmark recording of “The Wreck of the Old ’97” b/w “Prisoner’s Song” (1924), widely regarded as country music’s first million-seller. There is a great article on him in the September issue of my favorite magazine, the Old Time Herald.
Down The Volga
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