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)
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.
The women eliminate the baker, the soap boiler, and a lot of other parasites.
From In the Midst of Alarms by Barr, Robert
"Did you tell him that your father was an honest, hard-working soap boiler and candle maker?"
From True to His Home A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin by Pierce, H. Winthrop
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
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