"WORKING FOR A LIVING" PT1: DAD'S SIDE OF THE FAMILY

Randy Seaver's Saturday Night Genealogy Fun Challenge this past Saturday was something
I had been thinking of doing already but hadn't done as yet:

For this week's mission (should you decide to accept it), I challenge you to:
1)  Geneablogger Diane Gould Hall posted WORKDAY WEDNESDAY – What kind of work did your ancestors do? on her Michigan Family Trails blog this past week, and I thought the topic could be used as an SNGF post.

2)  Please go back several generations (say parents or grandparents or great-grandparents) and list the occupations that they had in the records you've found for them.  You could do this, say, by ancestor table number.

3)  Tell us about it in your own blog post, in a comment on this blog post, or in a post on Facebook or Google+.

It took me the past few days to work on this because of the amount of information I had to
look through, which is mostly on my Dad's side of the family. For that reason this post
will deal with my paternal line, and my Mom's family will be in a seperate post.

Here's what my Dad's ancestors worked at going back to some of my 4x great grandfathers
Grandfather
Floyd E West Sr (1893-1970)
1915 WW1 Army Enlistment Record- "Knowledge of any vocation: Farming"
1920 Census- Occupation-Farmer  Industry-Cropper
1923 Upton  Directory-Farmer  and saw mill
1925 Oxford County Business Directory-saw mill
1927 Upton Directory "frmr moved to Wentworth Location, NH"
1940 Census- Occupation "Operates tractor  Industry- lumbering"

Great Grandfathers
Philip J West (1868-1954)
1910 Census Farmer
1920 Census Occupation-Farmer  Industry-General Farming
1923 Upton  Directory-Farmer  and saw mill
1925 Oxford County Business Directory-saw mill
1927 Upton Directory frmer and saw mill
1930 Census Occupation-Millwright  Industry-Birch Mill
1940 Census-Occupation- Sawyer  Industry-Saw Mill

Frank W Barker (1865-1905)
1898 Marriage Record "Railroading"
1900 Cenus Railroad baggagemaster
1905 Death Record Baggagemaster G.T.R.  (Grand Trunk Railroad)

2x Great Grandfathers
Jonathan P West (1834-1917)
1860 Census Farmer
1870  Census Farmer
1880  Census Farmer
1900  Census Farmer

Asa Ellingwood (1828-1921)
1850 Census-Wheelwright
1860 Census-Mechanic
1870 Census-Farmer
1880 Census-Farmer
1921 Death Record-Farmer

Amos H Barker (1828-1907)
1860 Census Farmer
1870 Census Farmer
1880 Census Farmer  
1900 Census Farmer

Nathaniel S. Barker (1830-1884)
1860 Census Millman
1870 Census Farmer
1880 Census Farmer  

3x great grandfathers
John Cutter West (1802-1862)
1850 Census Blacksmith
1860 Census-Farmer & Blacksmith

Philip Richardson (1794-?)
1850  Census Farmer
1860  Census Farmer
1870  Census Farmer
1880 Census Farmer

James T Dunham (1805-1888)
1850 Census  Wheelwright
1860 Census Farmer
1870 Census Wheelwright

Nathaniel Barker (1794-1884)
1850  Census Farmer
1860  Census Farmer
1870  Census Laborer

Wesley Coburn (1802-1877)
1850 Census Wheelwright (29Aug 1850, Albany, Me)
1850 Census Miller (26Aug 1850, Mason, Me)

4x great grandfathers
James Dunham  (1775-1864)
1864  Death Record  Farmer

John Laughton (1790-?)
1850  Census Farmer
1860 Census Laborer

Before I discuss my Mom's lines, I'll have a brief post about some of the things in this post.

To be Continued...