a field worker... he cut sugarcane using a machete.

Seeing how interesting the grandfather question was, I figured it might be more interesting to go back another generation. I don't know what my father's grandfather's did, although I know one built beautiful furniture in his spare time. On my mother's side, one was an orphan who joined the navy and sailed with the Great White Fleet. On his return, he fired boilers to power factories. The other was a farm hand who worked for some years on the Reading Railroad.

He was a coal miner in Tennessee.

HVAC contractor in Texas. If it weren't for the oil bust, I would have inherited a TON of money. Oh well :)

Construction

I suppose I have 4. One was a mechanical/architectural engineer; another operated a fish cannery in Oslo. I don't know about the other side.

One on my father's side was a tin-smith, one on my mother's side was a grocer. Not sure about the other two.

World War 1 German Merchant Marine Capitanleutnant.

Ons was a greengrocer in London (Carnaby Street) One was a farmer. One was a grocer in the town I grew up in. The last one I don't know, but the family came from St-Anselme.

On my mother's side farmer. On my father's side- proprietor of a retail store.

I don't know. I don't even know his name.

I am fortunate to have know 2 of my great-grandfathers - but I have no idea what they did for careers. I'm fairly certain one was a farmer for most of his life - until they moved to "town." I have no idea the other - he died when I was very young. One of my great-grandfathers was a gangster/criminal in the early part of the 1900s - around 1930. Among others, he ran around with "Pretty-Boy Floyd." Family lore shows he was in every federal penitentiary west of the Mississippi. I suspect this is exaggeration. He and my Great-Grandma divorced before my Grandma was old enough to know him. His youngest brother is still alive and telling stories in Oklahoma. He tells my sister and I that my G-Grandfather, while he was a criminal, was extremely respectful of family. He never exposed his activities to his family, particularly his mother. When he divorced my G-Grandma, she (naturally) didn't want anything to do with him and didn't want him in contact with her or his daughter. According to my G-G-Uncle, he respected those wishes explicitly. Only once did he bring any cohorts home... Floyd. My G-G-Uncle met him and didn't, until much later, understand who this polite man was. Their mother never knew anything about his criminal activities. My G-G-Uncle has not yet shared details of his brothers criminal activity. He may not know too much, as there was a very large gap in their ages (I understand more than 10 years). We assume he was definitely involved with bank robbery, as that was one of Floyd's regular crimes. So, sort of glamorous, sort of disturbing, to have a quasi-notorious ancestor.