Almost all we learn of HF is that he's a well-off, middle-class saddler.

The saddler agreed to have his part of the work done by evening of the next day.

Pollard, nearly 30 years younger than the colonel, was born in Frankfort, Ky., the daughter of a saddler whose shop also offered an array of newspapers and highbrow magazines like Harper’s.

He had emigrated from Germany at age 12 and worked as a saddler, work that he continued to do as a soldier.

They were saddlers working in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries.