Daily AncestorStage driver
A stage driver drove a stagecoach, a horse-drawn coach carrying passengers, mail and parcels on a regular route.
Stagecoaches ran between towns on set routes, changing horses at stations along the way, which is why each leg was called a stage. The driver handled a team of four or six horses.
Stage lines thrived before railroads and lasted longer in the West and in rural areas.
As seen in a recordOccupation column of the 1850 to 1880 census
Lyman Cole, 32, Stage driver, N.H.
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