John Hall
Cutlers who headed for the USA in the 1840s hoped to find a better life, though they faced the same hazards. The Sheffield Independent, 4 August 1845, published the obituary of John Hall, a spring-knife cutler, late of Carver Street. He was glazing knives in Birmingham, New Haven County, Connecticut, when the glazer broke. He was injured so severely that he died a few days later. He was aged only 22. ....
