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By Joline Hutto
 Ledger Staff Writer
 
   Carriage makers. Ginners. Saddlers. Livery stable operators.
   Few, If any, of these crafts and trades of the 1820s can be found In 
Columbus today.
   But professionals of that time - physicians, teachers, lawyers and 
surveyors - are still In abundance locally. Only today, they're much better 
trained and better educated than their earlier counterparts.
   Of the occupations locally, crafts and trades have changed more over the 
last 150 years than professions have.
   Technology Is what caused most of the changes, said local historian Dr. Joe 
Mahan.
   "As technology advanced, crafts and trades multiplied, with mass 
manufacturing replacing  many of them," he said "Plus, as the years went on 
almost all jobs were open to women. Before, woman could only hold 'respectable' 
jobs such as ' milliner, teacher seamstress or midwife."
   Potters, Weavers, Milliners. Most of their wares are now made in factories.
   Mill wrights. Bridge builders. They are now called engineers. And with 
advanced education and more intellectual skills involved now, they are 
considered professionals more than tradesmen.
   Tailors. Barbers. Cabinet makers. A few of them are still around. Most of 
their work is superior to their predecessors. "But you don't find cabinet 
makers making the fine furniture they use to make," said Mahan.





Special Sesquicentennial Supplement 1
Ledger-Enquirer, Sunday, April 16, 1978
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