Fred A. Gannon

Name: The Ways of a Worker of a Century Ago
Author: Fred A. Gannon

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“The Ways of a Worker of a Century Ago”, is a work by Fred A. Gannon. It explores elements such as Lye, shoemaker and shoe.

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Fred A. Gannon, The Ways of a Worker of a Century Ago

“ He cleaned the chimney, set out posts and fences, fixed the pump, caulked boats and helped kill the neighbor’s pig. Interested in religious matters, he led the active, useful life of a good citizen.”
Altogether, he was a busy man. He viewed life from many angles. His diary is doubtless a good and accurate record of the acts and thoughts of the average man of his time. It furnishes material for contrast with men and their ways of these days.
In Lye’s time all work was done by hand. Machinery was scarcely known. Men often worked alone, for the factory system had not been started. ”

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Fred A. Gannon, The Ways of a Worker of a Century Ago

“ John Adam Dagyr, “the Celebrated Shoemaker of Essex,” had taught his fellow workers of Lynn how to make shoes equal to the best imported from London and Paris. Newspapers of the time urged people to buy American shoes instead of imported footwear. Ebenezer Breed, an early captain of American industry, had induced Congress to put a protective tariff on American shoes.
Joseph Lye, the diarist, learned shoemaking of his father, the Revolutionary soldier, as did many a lad of his time. He worked on the farm, too, and became a handy man, able to undertake most any of the simple4 tasks of his time. ”

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Fred A. Gannon, The Ways of a Worker of a Century Ago

“ He read the Book of Life, and believed it, according to his views. He lived according to his conscience, and he was a contented man through the days of his life.
Did he get more out of life than a fellow these days of complex ways. ”

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Fred A. Gannon, The Ways of a Worker of a Century Ago

“ The simple annals of the poor.”
6 Lye thought much upon spiritual matters. He wrote in his diary frequently of his attendance at church and of his views of religious subjects. He worked leisurely and had time to reflect upon the meaning of life and its highest ideals. It may be his view of life has been lost among men of today, intent upon their affairs of the moment. The point is worth looking into, for the solution of many serious problems of business, labor and society is coming through Christianity and its interpretation by men. ”

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Fred A. Gannon, The Ways of a Worker of a Century Ago

“ In the afternoon was laid the corner stone of the Second Congregational church (Unitarian) with appropriate ceremony. The treasurer, William Badger, having deposited under it a 25 cent piece, one half cent, a ten cent piece, an American coin and some newspapers of the day, and the copper plate with the inscription: ‘There is one God, one mediator between God and man, the man Jesus Christ. ”

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Fred A. Gannon, The Ways of a Worker of a Century Ago

“ God is no respector of persons but in every nation he that feareth Him and worketh righteousness is acceptable.’ The other side: ‘Second Congregational society of Lynn, maintaining in their fullest extent the right of conscience and private judgment in Religion and the principles of Universal Charity was established, and this house devoted to the worship of the only true God, the Father of Jesus Christ, our Lord, founded under their patronage in the year of the11 Christian Era 1822. May God give thee increase.’”
Deep interest in religion was common among shoemakers of the time of Lye. ”

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Fred A. Gannon, The Ways of a Worker of a Century Ago

“ Lye wrote in his diary many records of his acts and views of Christianity, and some of his records are these:
“Sunday, Nov. 23. This day attended the meeting at the meeting house in Lynn, heard Rev. Mr. Brown preach from Luke 23, 61–62 verse. In the afternoon from Matthew 26, 24–27 verse.”
Lye went to church twice Sunday. Many of today do not go to church once. ”

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Fred A. Gannon, The Ways of a Worker of a Century Ago

“ Soon may it rise, no more to die.
So that stone tells of the faith Lye had in eternal life, a faith which was his guide in each act of the days of his life.
THE TAPLEYS.
Amos Tapley, who purchased the Lye shop after the death of Joseph Lye, was of the Danvers family of Tapleys. He married a daughter of Joseph Lye, the shoemaker and soldier of the Revolution. His son, Amos Preston Tapley, engaged in the shoe trade and became the owner of the shop upon the death of his father. His son, Henry Fuller Tapley, became owner of the shop, and gave24 it to the Essex Institute. ”

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Fred A. Gannon, The Ways of a Worker of a Century Ago

“ Sunday, July 12, “arrived in Lynn with18 the boat, which we took possession of July 1 without much difficulty, having had a quick voyage of ten days, Capt. Ross, S. Hutchinson and myself being all the crew to manage both vessels.”
Monday, July 27, “bought of James Austin one sixth part of the boat Humbird for $16.66.” (It was for using this boat in the cod fishing industry that Lye got the bounty of $35, by the way.)
At some time or other during the year, Lye acquired the pigs for which he made his vain trip to Chelsea, and on Jan. 1 he “killed our two hogs. Their weight was 384 pounds.” ”

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