INTRODUCTION. 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF PROF. GEO. E. RICH. 



The publisher of this work has felt that the many friends 

 of Prof. Geo. E. Rich, as well as those who are likely to be- 

 come his friends from the perusal of this book, would be 

 g-lad to know something- of his early history and to see a 

 portrait of the man who has achieved such success as a 

 practical horse-shoer and lecturer on the anatomy of the 

 horse's foot. Prof. Rich was born in the villag-e of Leona, 

 Bradford Co., Pa., in the year 1847. His father was a 

 blacksmith, and young* George commenced helping him in 

 his shop when he had to stand on a wooden box in the front 

 of the anvil in order to wield his sledge successfully. 



He began to shoe horses, when he was eleven 3^ears of 

 age, in the village of Roseville, Pa., and worked in that 

 place until he was fourteen 3^ears old. From there he went 

 to Washington, D. C, and followed his trade of horse- 

 shoer at the corner of I and 24th streets, shoeing large 

 numbers of horses for the Government. Thence, after 

 about a year, he went to Dunkirk, IST. Y., and from there to 

 Elmira, working in each place for several years. He after- 

 wards worked for a couple of years in Tiog-a Co.,Pa., as 

 well as in Harrjsbiu'^. 



