Father Johann Rudolf Meyer, Citizen of Aarau: A Memorial

and to the Prussian coast. Only after leaving the Polish borders, having seen much of the lands and people, their constitutions, customs, and trades, did he return to the beautiful Aare valley by the Jura, where his home lay.

Here he immediately found an opportunity to prove his assertion that wisdom makes acquisition easier. Without delay, he began to laboriously manufacture a supply of silk ribbons in the home of his second mother, and with these first fruits of his industry, which barely filled a single small chest, he went on foot to the trade fair in Zurzach. But not long thereafter, his former employers turned over their entire business to him, along with all goods inventories and equipment, since it was faring poorly under their administration. He took it over on the condition of paying off the large debt in sufficient installments. To be able to do this and to expand his profession as much as possible, he renounced his cloth trade, selling his entire stock of fabrics to one of his childhood friends. At the same time, he