Daily AncestorDeliveryman
A deliveryman carried goods from a store or business to customers' homes, on foot, by wagon or by truck.
Wiktionary defines a deliveryman as someone employed to make deliveries.
The 1930 census instructions give "Deliveryman, Grocery store" as a model entry, and the 1940 instructions repeat it as "Deliveryman, Retail grocery store". The industry column tells you what kind of business he drove or walked for.
As seen in a recordOccupation and industry columns of the 1910 to 1940 census
Leo Hartnagel, 19, Deliveryman, Grocery store
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