Comparing Buckman Censuses

These are the occupations listed for the VILLAGE of Buckman in 1910, 1920 and 1930.  The township list is also online, but we've been researching the merchants and businesses lately, so there ya go....

I connected names with occupations if they were someone we've been following, or who seemed familiar. When mom and dad sold their house by the river, some people named Roos bought it, and mom asked if they had connections in Buckman.  I think they said yes, and there, in 1910, is the link to who she meant.
Buckman steadily gained population and enterprises over these 21 years, but there were fires, store sales, and closings, not to mention Prohibition (1920-1933) in those years, too.  It's just fun to see what people did for a living then.  BTW, the blacksmith Joe A. Janson was our great-grandfathers' cousins' son.  In other words, John Janson (the immigrant) named a son Joseph Anton, and he became a blacksmith in Buckman.  Joe A. married Mary Poster, and they had 3 kids--Irene, Robert and Otto.  Irene and Robert helped out a lot at Zenners before and after we bought the store.