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
The women eliminate the baker, the soap boiler, and a lot of other parasites.
From In the Midst of Alarms by Barr, Robert
A small master weaver or nail manufacturer, or soap boiler or potter, would also have a little farm and divide his time between the two occupations.
From An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England by Cheyney, Edward Potts
The dinner and its guests and its setting were calculated to impress the son of the Boston soap boiler who represented the important colonies in America.
From In the Days of Poor Richard by Bacheller, Irving
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