Occupations

In researching a family on Minnesota on the 1880 census, I found an occupation that I hadn't seen before: gooser. (Honestly!) Which leads one to wonder in a city such as St. Cloud, whether flocks of geese were keep? Or did he defeather the geese? Or did he eliminate the geese, as a possible nusiance? I have no clear answer. Other family members worked as a baker, as a dressmaker, a laborer, while the younger children went to school. Fascinating stuff, as it always is!

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