A French-speaking man who roamed the Northeast in a handmade leather suit in the late 1800s became a beloved local celebrity lauded in newsprint as the 'Old Leatherman.' Schoolchildren were let out of class to greet and feed the friendly vagabond as he passed by on his 365-mile circuit of New York and Connecticut towns, which he traversed, like clockwork, once every 34 days. According to lore, he was Jules Bourglay, the disgraced suitor of the daughter of one of France's top leather merchants, who had brought about that family's financial ruin and fled in shame to the US from Lyon, France.
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