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Leather-splitting and Shoe-pegging Ma- 

 chines. — Wo have received from Mr. Charles 



II. Parker, of Billerica, Mass., an interesting 

 statement of the claims of Mr. Samuel Par- 

 ker, of that place, born in 1 Y 7 - , died in 1841, 

 to be regarded as the inventor of the leather- 

 splitting machine. Mr. Parker was the son 

 of a tanner, and displayed considerable gen- 

 ius, which he applied in secret ami iu the 

 face of many obstacles to the construction 

 of his machine. To test its usefulness he 

 experimented upon it with some leather from 

 his father's tan-yard, and found to his great 

 delight that it did the work it was invented 

 for. A patent was granted to him for the 

 invention, July 9, 1S0S. The original ma- 

 chine was burned with the tan-yard build- 

 ings about forty years ago. Mr. Rich, au- 

 thor of the article in the Monthly on leath- 

 er-making, says that the historical state- 

 ments concerning Mr. Parker's invention 

 are correct, and that he probably did as 

 much as any of the early workers iu real- 

 izing the invention, and is to be credited as a 

 pioneer. The case appears to be one of that 

 numerous class in which many inventors con- 

 tribute to the perfection of a machine, each 

 furnishing his quota of suggestions for its 

 better working, while the one who produces 

 a machine recognized as practical and puts 

 it on the market gets the credit and profit 

 of the whole. — Mr. J. J. Greenough, of Fort 

 McPherson, Atlanta, Ga., writes us to dispute 

 the claim of A. C. Gallahue to be the invent- 

 or of the pegging machine. It appeals from 

 Mr. Greenough's letter that he was first to 

 file an application for a patent on such a 

 machine, in 1S52, and Mr. Gallahue after- 



