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Glover Park History

Historical Sketches of Glover Park, Upper Georgetown, and Georgetown Heights by Carlton Fletcher

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  • Civil War
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  • Neighborhood
    • Neighborhood Histories
    • Neighborhood Images
    • Family Album
    • Oral History and Reminiscences
    • Residential Development Before 1926
    • Residential Development Since 1926
    • Investors & Developers
  • Population
    • Settlement
    • Kinds of Work
    • Settlers
    • Slavery
  • Geography
    • Maps, Places & Features
    • Streets
  • Estates & Farms
    • Alliance Farm
    • Burleith
    • Cedars
    • Clifton
    • Greenwood
    • Hillandale
    • Mount Alto
    • Normanstone
    • North View
    • Tunlaw Farm
    • Weston
  • Institutions
    • Former Institutions
    • Present Institutions
  • Cemeteries
    • Burial Grounds of Georgetown
    • Holy Rood Cemetery
    • Buried in Holy Rood
  • Civil War
    • The Civil War on Georgetown Heights
    • Local People in the Civil War
  • Appendix
Home » Population » Kinds of Work » Kinds of Work

Kinds of Work

 

Terminology

 

Truck gardens were feasible on smaller pieces of land, such as an immigrant, or a former slave, might be able to afford; hence the gardeners listed in the censuses of our area. If the gardener sold his produce, whether at the market, or in the street, the census might list him as a huckster; there appears not to have been a clear distinction between the two callings.

A master butcher did more than cut meat; he bought livestock on the hoof from a drover, slaughtered and preserved in season, and presided over a stand in the market. A currier turned hides into leather for a shoemaker. A sexton dug graves, and guarded the cemetery. A clerk was what we would call a manager or supervisor.

In the table below, Pennsylvanian refers to the southward migration, by people primarily of German descent, from Pennsylvania, while Marylander generally means a person of British descent.

 

 

 

Trades and Professions in Upper Georgetown, 1810 to 1860

 Pennsylvanians
Homiller, Michael master butcher
Kengla, Lewis master butcher
Weaver, Michael master butcher
Pauley, Samuel butcher, drover
Blackman, William shoemaker
Cole, Samuel shoemaker
Kuhns, William shoemaker?
Custard, Jacob currier
Riffle, George carpenter
Rhoads, Edward gardener
  Germans
Colter, Peter gardener, distiller,
Heider, Frederick gardener
Rosenbusch, Traugott gardener
Sherier, Conrad gardener
Yeabower, Christopher butcher
Dill, Peter butcher
Scheele, Daniel blacksmith
Adler, Morris government clerk
  Marylanders
Barnaclo, J. M. poorhouse keeper
Stevens, Rezin poorhouse keeper
Hyde, Thomas tannery owner
Clark, Mary Ann investment, slaves
Lay, Richard bank clerk
Stone, Edward butcher
Sherwood, Thomas gardener, huckster
  Free Blacks
Barker, Murray gardener, huckster
Berry, Samuel tanner
Landson, Thomas blacksmith
Ridgely, Henry laborer
  Irish
Green, John gardener
Cassidy, Patrick sexton

 

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Carlton Fletcher

 The citation and acknowledgement of my research is greatly appreciated.

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 Questions and corrections may be directed to

moc.yrotsihkraprevolg@notlrac

 

The support of the Advisory Neighborhood Council (3B) is gratefully acknowledged.

Category: Kinds of Work

Questions and corrections may be directed to moc.yrotsihkraprevolg@notlrac
The citation and acknowledgement of my research is greatly appreciated.
The support of the Advisory Neighborhood Council (3B) is gratefully acknowledged.

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