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bascall Posts: 1629 |
posted 07-13-2009 05:16 AM
  
James M Fenner is listed in the 1860 U S Federal Census for Providence, Rhode Island as a jeweler. His son Albert is in the same census and also listed as a jeweler. IP: Logged |
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wev Moderator Posts: 4121 |
posted 07-13-2009 09:45 AM
Albert apparently tired of his father's occupation and took up the drug trade, as did his brothers James and Conrad. His quack tonic proved popular and he became quite wealthy selling it. IP: Logged |
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posted 07-13-2009 10:14 AM
Yes, and on a side note I find it interesting that quack doctors were actually listed as such in the nineteenth century census's. It seems more jewelers than not turned to other occupations at some point in their career. Either they pursued their father's trade while he was living and then left it, or after completing apprenticeships found they weren't cut for the trade for any number of reasons. [This message has been edited by bascall (edited 07-13-2009).] IP: Logged |
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bascall Posts: 1629 |
posted 07-21-2009 10:05 PM
Here's a mysterious change of occupations from my point of view. The Boston silversmith Nathan C Littlefield is listed as a janitor in 1884. Maybe the money was good at Weld Hall, H U. IP: Logged |
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wev Moderator Posts: 4121 |
posted 07-21-2009 11:10 PM
Hmmmm. Sure it's the same fellow? He is listed in the 1880 census as a silversmith and in Clark's 1885 Blue Book: The Elite of Boston on Mellon Street. Then again, perhaps he had a reversal of his reversal. . . IP: Logged |
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bascall Posts: 1629 |
posted 07-22-2009 01:01 AM
I had noticed all that you mention. It's all part of the mystery at this point. Nathan C Littlefield at 10 Mellen, Cambridge, Massachusetts went from being listed as a silversmith in 1883 to a becoming a janitor in 1884. He was at Weld Hall H U until 1890 when he begins being listed as a janitor at Washington Grammar School. There was a janitor at Harvard with the surname Littlefield who helped solve a murder that occured there in the mid nineteenth century. Could Nathan have a connection to that gentleman...more to think about...maybe there was a problem with his mental state? Of course the most likely answer is that there is nothing to this at all. Maybe business was off and Nathan needed a more reliable source of income. In the 1900 U S Federal Census Nathan is still a janitor and still clearly at 10 Mellen. His son William L (Willie) is an ensign in the Navy, and Nathan's wife Sarah E is still present. [This message has been edited by bascall (edited 07-22-2009).] IP: Logged |
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