Daily AncestorOrchardist
An orchardist grew fruit or nut trees, such as apples, peaches or walnuts, in an orchard for sale.
Wiktionary gives orchardist as a synonym of orcharder, one who keeps an orchard. An orchard is a planting of fruit or nut trees kept for food production, mostly for commercial sale, and usually laid out in a regular grid.
The 1900 census instructions told enumerators to distinguish a farmer who ran a farm from a gardener, fruit grower, nurseryman, florist or vine grower, so an orchardist may also be entered as fruit grower.
As seen in a recordOccupation and industry columns of the 1910 to 1940 census
Lyman Westover, 52, Orchardist, Apple orchard
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