[APG Public List] Help with occupation on census

[Drew Smith]

Looks like "Manufacturer of Sugared Flag Root" to me.

You can google either "sugared flag root" or "sugared flagroot" to
find a few references to it.

Drew

On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Laura Prescott <laura at lauraprescott.com> wrote:
> I would be eternally grateful if anyone can help me decipher the occupation
> for Benjamin Rogers on line 47 of the Nantucket, Massachusetts, 1880 census
> (ED 492, p. 21). I am looking at the image on Ancestry at:
> http://search.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=View&r=an&dbid=6742&iid=MAT9_547-0024&fn=Maria+L.&ln=Rogers&st=r&ssrc=&pid=16982441