William Scott (1740-1774)

As one of Boston's many shoemakers, your talent
for making elegant women's shoes makes you famous. You marry well and own property, making you unusually wealthy and prominent for a shoemaker.
You grow an unfashionable beard at a time when men are always clean-shaven. You defend your whiskers
by pointing out passages in the bible which endorse beard growth. Your business earns you enough to have your portrait painted, which you publish in the newspapers along with a poem you write praising the virtue