Daily AncestorTeleg.
Teleg. means telegraph, as in Operator, Teleg. Co.; it was an approved abbreviation in the 1900 census occupation column.
Teleg. for telegraph is on the 1900 census list of twenty abbreviations allowed in the occupation column. The same instructions asked that a telegraph operator, a telegraph lineman and similar workers be reported by the work they actually did, and that a company official be returned by his title.
So expect Operator, Teleg. or Lineman, Teleg. Co. Do not mix it up with Telph., the separate abbreviation for telephone on the same list.
As seen in a recordOccupation column of the 1900 census
Operator, Teleg. Co.
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