<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 8.00.6001.18813"> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">I agree, manufacturer of sugar flag root.  Herbal tonic?  <A href="http://www.florahealth.com/flora/home/Canada/HealthInformation/Encyclopedias/Calamus.htm">http://www.florahealth.com/flora/home/Canada/HealthInformation/Encyclopedias/Calamus.htm</A></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">interesting occupation</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">Larry</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=drewsmithtpa@gmail.com href="mailto:drewsmithtpa@gmail.com">Drew Smith</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=laura@lauraprescott.com href="mailto:laura@lauraprescott.com">Laura Prescott</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A title=apgpubliclist@apgen.org href="mailto:apgpubliclist@apgen.org">apgpubliclist@apgen.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, October 09, 2009 4:43 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [APG Public List] Help with occupation on census</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV>Looks like "Manufacturer of Sugared Flag Root" to me.<BR><BR>You can google either "sugared flag root" or "sugared flagroot" to<BR>find a few references to it.<BR><BR>Drew<BR><BR>On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Laura Prescott <<A href="mailto:laura@lauraprescott.com">laura@lauraprescott.com</A>> wrote:<BR>> I would be eternally grateful if anyone can help me decipher the occupation<BR>> for Benjamin Rogers on line 47 of the Nantucket, Massachusetts, 1880 census<BR>> (ED 492, p. 21). I am looking at the image on Ancestry at:<BR>> <A href="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">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</A><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>APG Public Mailing List<BR><A href="http://apgen.org/publications/publiclist/">http://apgen.org/publications/publiclist/</A></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>