Volume 23 Issue 4 Fall 2019
Isaac Ensign’s Multifaceted Occupation
Although a major part of Isaac Ensign’s business was shoeing horses and oxen, his customers probably never called him a farrier. He and the others in town in the same trade were designated in the early tax records only as “blacksmiths.” However, the variety of products he made and his use of several metals other than iron, would qualify him today to also be called a brazier or brownsmith, a locksmith, and a gunsmith.