• Johann Bernard Petermann was a dock foreman in Hoboken, New Jersey
• Fritz Kettler was a longshoreman in Brooklyn and Hoboken
• Johannus Jensen as a longshoreman in Hoboken

• Johann Bernard Petermann was listed on the birth record of his son, Christian, as a butcher. The family was living in Brooklyn at the time.
• Peter Goehle was listed on all records connected to him as a butcher. In the 1900 Federal Census in New York he was listed as a "provisions butcher".

Herman Blanck was a carpenter and his brothers John and Louse Blanck worked as lumbermen in a lumberyard. Henry Erxmeyer and his son Henry were carpenters.

Henry Blanck was a shoemaker from Lehe, Germany. George Sykes and his family were cordwainers in Yorkshire, England.

Catherine Furst Swartzmeier Lindemann was a dressmaker and her second husband, Julius Lindemann, was a tailor.

The Blanck family in Lehe, Germany were linen weavers