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My paternal grandfather was a sea captain, a brick and stone mason, a soldier and a farmer. Then he spent 10 years cutting giant fir and spruce trees and with a crew, splitting them into long bridge beams with double-ended saws.
My paternal grandmother was a horse trainer and appeared at rodeos shooting pistols and throwing knives and hatchets while riding. She appeared twice as a guest performer in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. She was 6 feet tall, weighed 165 lbs, and was as tough and mean as a cobra.
My maternal grandfather built a general store and trading-post on a freight-hauling road in a small, Eastern Oregon settlement and was the first postmaster there.
My maternal grandmother was a master seamstress, gourmet cook and candy-maker. She supervised the commercial candy-making at a large store in a bigger city, where my mother worked for several years after high school. It was a real joy for a small boy to visit her house during the holiday season.
All four of them came to this state on the Oregon Trail.
Maternal
Grandmother 1 (biological) - Girlfriday, secretarial, cleaning lady, babysitter, in-home care.
Grandmother 2 - Secretarial, piano instructor
Grandfather - Carpenter, union coordinator and college professor after his heart attack
Just to revert from the the more negative threads in this sub forum, I thought this would add less distress. I think it would be interesting to see how skills have transformed through generations.
My father is a carpenter, and my mother is a CNA. My paternal grandparents were both tailors.
My Father and Mother worked for Tektronix. Mom worked there for 30+ years.
Grandmother was a housekeeper.
Aunt (A direct sibling of my Mother) worked for 40 years with WU...
My mother was a teacher and my father was a lawyer.
I'm not sure what my grandparents jobs were. I think my grandmother on my mother's side worked in a sweater factory and my grandfather on that side worked building submarines for at least a while.
On my father's side I think his father may have owned some kind of warehouse.
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