Daily AncestorDairyman
A dairyman kept or worked a dairy farm, or in towns delivered milk and other dairy products, depending on the record.
Dairyman usually means a dairy farmer, though it can also mean a worker in milk processing or a man who delivered milk and butter to customers.
In 1900 enumerators were told to return as a dairyman or dairywoman anyone whose farm work had to do chiefly with the dairy, and not to confuse that person with an employee of a butter and cheese or condensed milk factory.
As seen in a recordOccupation column of the 1870 to 1940 census
Henry Pruitt, 49, Dairyman
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