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Updated: May 31, 2025

For reasons of his own he declined, and before the end of the Brown trial left in disgust. At one stage of the proceedings there was talk of supplying troops from the National Guard to preserve order. And yet there had at no time been a breach of the peace or threats made except by the man Miller. On one occasion Miller drew a revolver in the court room and attempted to shoot Attorney Raker.

William Thompson - Reminiscences of a Pioneer

I believe I am the first puddler that ever described his job, for I have found no book by a puddler in any American library. But I wanted to explain here that a muck roller is not a muck raker, but a worker in raw iron. When we boarded the train for Ohio, mother had nothing to look after except the six children.

James J. (James John) Davis - The Iron Puddler : My life in the rolling mills and what came of it