Daily AncestorWoodchopper
A woodchopper cut down trees and chopped wood with an axe, for firewood, charcoal or lumber.
A woodchopper was a person who chopped wood, much like a lumberjack. Woodchoppers felled trees and cut firewood and cordwood, often working seasonally in camps.
The 1900 census instructions told enumerators to distinguish a woodchopper working regularly in the woods from an ordinary laborer who only took an occasional job chopping wood.
As seen in a recordOccupation column of the 1880 to 1910 census
Alcide Roy, 36, Woodchopper, Canada
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