They tried to establish a hatter business, but it soon failed and went into bankruptcy.
We must keep our brims curled up because long ago hatters did not know how to stiffen a brim.
At an early age he left his studies, and was apprenticed to a hatter.
In the late nineteenth century, a pressing health issue among hatters was tuberculosis.
Consequently, public health campaigns to prevent tuberculosis spreading from the hatters into the wider community tended to eclipse the issue of mercury poisoning.
He received a very limited education, and was employed as a hatter for three years and then became a carpenter and contractor.
The census of 1843 indicated a variety of occupations, including hatter, milliner, seamstress and tailor.
She was then hired to wait on a hatter and his wife, who kept such different hours that she had no chance to sleep.
