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Quick-witted, shrewd and resilient, he survived a Dickensian adolescence that included working as a bobbin boy in a textile mill.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He could be a bobbin boy in a big factory, he was told.
From Modern Americans A Biographical School Reader for the Upper Grades by Sanford, Chester Milton
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- doffer
- child laborer
- mill hand
- textile worker
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- factory owner