| Description |
1 photograph : black and white ; 24 x 18.5 cm. in glass frame with 4 corners of metal frame 21 x 25 cm. |
| Series |
Southington, graphics |
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Southington, graphics.
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| Note |
Title from the Hartford Courant scrapbook. |
| Summary |
"Jules Bourglay was born in Lyons, France, the son of a wood carver. He fell in love with the daughter of a wealthy leather merchant. Because he was beneath his beloved's Mlle. Laron, station in life, he was taken into her father's leather merchant business on trial for a year. Misguided market speculation caused the ruin of M. Laron, and Jules's prospects. Jules Bourglay became deranged and wandered the streets of Paris for a year before he disappered. It was later determined that Jules Bourglay was the Old Leather Man that walked a 34 day, 365 mile circuit for thirty years through Connecticut [including Southington] and New York. He slept in caves or rough shelters. He hardly spoke, but gestured for food and tobacco, never asking for money. He was found dead in his cave on the George Dell farm in Mount Pleasant, NY on March 24, 1889."--From "Leather Man Walked Endlessly for Lost Love," Hartford Courant, August 12, 1984 (contained in the Leatherman scrapbook). |
| Original Location |
Southington Library Historical Collection 255 Main St., Southington CT 06489 |
| Note |
Photograph donated by Mrs. Ethel Childs in memory of Mr. Frank Root. |
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GMD: picture. |
| Subject |
Southington (Conn.) -- History.
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Graphic methods -- Connecticut -- Southington.
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Graphic arts -- Connecticut -- Southington.
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Leatherman. (Jules Bourglay) d1889.
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| Genre/Form |
Photographs -- 19th century.
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| Added Author |
Childs , Ethel.
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