soap boiler
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Finding, however, but little employment in that business, he set up as a tallow chandler and soap boiler.
From Benjamin Franklin A Picture of the Struggles of Our Infant Nation One Hundred Years Ago American Pioneers and Patriots Series by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)
To appreciate this witticism, one may refer to the New York directory of 1789, which describes John Slidell, the father of the Slidell of whom we are speaking, as "soap boiler and chandler, 104 Broadway."
From As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century by Gouverneur, Marian
His father was a soap boiler and tallow chandler, and he was the fifteenth in a family of seventeen children.
From Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail by Lewis, Harry A.
Crown 8vo, cloth 7/6 "The work will prove very useful, not merely to the technological student, but to the soap boiler who wishes to understand the theory of his art."
From French Polishing and Enamelling A Practical Work of Instruction by Bitmead, Richard
The women eliminate the baker, the soap boiler, and a lot of other parasites.
From In the Midst of Alarms by Barr, Robert
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