Daily AncestorStorekeeper
A storekeeper ran a shop, often a country general store, as owner or manager; on ships and in the army it meant the person in charge of stores.
In American usage a storekeeper kept a store, very often a general store in a rural area or small town that sold groceries, dry goods, hardware and other necessities to people from the town and surrounding farms.
A second sense is the person in charge of supplies, such as a naval or military storekeeper. In the census the word usually means the first, and the 1940 instructions list storekeeper among own-account workers or employers.
As seen in a recordOccupation column of the 1850 to 1880 census
Levi Hatch, 50, Storekeeper, Vermont
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Daily Ancestor. "Storekeeper." Dictionary of Old Record Words. https://dailyancestor.com/dictionary/occupations/storekeeper. Last checked 2026-10-10.