Excerpt from From Home-Spun to CalicoRichard arkwright, the youngest of thirteen children, was born in 1732, the same year that george washington first saw the light, who became the great exponent of civil liberty in the new world. He was bred a barber, which pursuit he followed till he was thirty years of age.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.