By the age of 24 he decided it was time for him to work independent of a master, to help his marriage prospects (after working at shoe factories in his late teens, he returned as a cobbler’s ...

Maybe that’s a misstep.” My grandfather was a cobbler and shoemaker, born at the turn of the 20th century in New York. He quit school at the age of 14 to work as an apprentice to his father ...