Daily AncestorJeweler
A jeweler made, repaired or sold jewelry, working with gold, silver and set stones.
A bench jeweler combined many skills: stone setting, engraving, casting, polishing and the work of gold- and silversmiths.
The 1870 and 1880 instructions told enumerators not to call men jewelers if they made watches, watch chains or jewelry in large manufacturing establishments; those were factory workers to be described by their work. So a census jeweler is usually a shopkeeper or craftsman in his own trade.
As seen in a recordOccupation column of the 1850 to 1940 census
Louis Beck, 44, Jeweler
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