From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Mon Aug 7 17:31:07 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k77NV7jb013040; Mon, 7 Aug 2006 17:31:07 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k77NV62a002422 for ; Mon, 7 Aug 2006 17:31:06 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k77KpsFI013680 for ; Mon, 7 Aug 2006 16:51:54 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k77KpsWm013679 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Mon, 7 Aug 2006 16:51:54 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k77JQIFI013446 for ; Mon, 7 Aug 2006 15:26:18 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k77M5JMG028497 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Mon, 7 Aug 2006 16:05:19 -0600 X-Envelope-From: artnpeg@epix.net Mon Aug 7 16:05:19 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k77M5Jjb028486 for ; Mon, 7 Aug 2006 16:05:19 -0600 Received: from soy.epix.net (soy.epix.net [199.224.64.64]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k77M5Gw4008309 for ; Mon, 7 Aug 2006 16:05:16 -0600 Received: from [192.168.1.100] (hrbg-216-37-136-27-pppoe.dsl.hrbg.epix.net [216.37.136.27]) by soy.epix.net (8.12.11.20060614/2006032601/PL) with ESMTP id k77M5F69006333 for ; Mon, 7 Aug 2006 18:05:16 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <44D7B96C.6010400@epix.net> Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 18:06:36 -0400 From: "artnpeg@epix.net" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ROOTS-M@rootsweb.com References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Subject: [ROOTS-L] Re: Meaning of "jour." Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Thank you to all who responded to my query! Your help is greatly appreciated. Based on his short biography, as well as listed occupation in 1860 census records, "jour." would seem to refer to my gr grandfather's trade, that of carriage maker; although as some have suggested he might also have been a journalist traveling and reporting across the country: < History and Biography of Jackson County Michigan, Pub. in Chicago: Inter-State Pub. Co., 1881 Pages 748 and 751 Charles WELLS, carriage-maker, was born in Berkeley county, Va., Sept. 4, 1830. When a small child his parents, Nicholas and Elizabeth WELLS, emigrated to Hocking county, Ohio, in 1831, took up Government land and made a farm, where he resided until his death, which occurred in 1869. The subject of this sketch apprenticed to a man by the name of Michael MOORE, and remained four years. He then worked as a "jour." and traveled over the Western States. In 1849 he crossed the plains to California, but his health failing, he returned to Ohio. In the spring of 1851 he came to Ann Arbor and followed his trade a short time. In 1861 he enlisted in the 16th Ohio Vol. Cav., Co. K, and served three years, was in all the engagements of the regiment up to the battle of Gettysburg, where he was injured by a cannon ball coming so close to his head that it knocked him down, and it was supposed a horse ran over him. After the war he came back to Ann Arbor and remained there until 1878, then came to Jackson and has remained since. He married Miss Elizabeth SHAIBLE, a native of Germany; she was born in 1847. They have 1 child--Lada. In polities Mr. W. is a Republican.> Peggy iecoleman wrote: > Jour. is short for 'journeyman', a laborer or person who goes from place to > place to work or practice his trade. > ---- > X-Message: #16 > Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2006 19:42:38 -0400 > From: "artnpeg@epix.net" > Subject: [ROOTS-L] Meaning of "jour."? > > In a biography on my gr grandfather, Charles W. WELLS, it says that he > worked as a "jour." and traveled over the western states in 1849-50. > > Can someone please tell me the definition of "jour."? > > Thanks for any help. > > Peggy