Daily AncestorWagonmaker
A wagonmaker built and repaired wagons, the heavy four-wheeled vehicles used to haul goods and farm loads.
Wiktionary defines a wagonmaker as a craftsman who makes wagons, or a manufacturer of wagons. A wagon is a heavy four-wheeled vehicle pulled by horses, mules or oxen, as opposed to a two-wheeled cart or a lighter carriage for people.
A wagon was formerly called a wain, and one who builds or repairs wagons a wainwright, so wainwright and wagonmaker name the same craft.
As seen in a recordOccupation column of the 1850 to 1900 census
Conrad Ebersole, 46, Wagonmaker, Penn.
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