Daily AncestorLumberman
A lumberman worked in the timber trade, as a logger cutting trees or as a dealer or owner in the lumber business.
The word covers both ends of the trade: the man felling trees in the woods, and the businessman who bought timberland or sold lumber. In Maine, Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota it often means a logger.
Look at age, property and other clues: a young lumberman with no property was likely a woodsman, while an older one with land may have owned mills.
As seen in a recordOccupation column of the 1880 to 1920 census
Ole Berg, 26, Lumberman, Wis.
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