William Scholes (1814-1864) a cotton carder in one of the dark Satanic mills of the Industrial Revolution in England won a workers' lottery on New Year's Day 1849. That fall he and wife Ann Mills (1814-1875) and their children arrived in central Wisconsin with high hopes and few skills. In 37 chapters The Lottery of Life follows the ancestral couple and their descendants―among them teachers telegraphers engineers homesteaders active union members farmers inventors (from farm equipment to recycling fluorescent lights) an encyclopedia manager and a world authority on glass.
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