He then became a storekeeper in an enginering works, and briefly joined the Communist party, selling the Daily Worker on street corners.
He was also lynched beaten and hung from a tree in Abbeville, South Carolina, in 1916 after an argument with a white storekeeper.
A storekeeper sells them two "mule eggs"—watermelons.
After a life spent as a carpenter, shipbuilder, carny, and storekeeper, Pickett began painting when he was about 65.
There he worked from time to time as storekeeper, postmaster, and surveyor.
Although Lauder later attempted to recoup his reputation, vacillating between an arrogant defense of his position (in 1753 he charged that Milton had robbed a total of 97 authors) and a weak insinuation that the whole affair was a joke, he was regarded with great contempt and ended his days in the West Indies as a poor storekeeper.
In 1796 he emigrated to the Cape of Good Hope, and, after British forces withdrew from there in 1802, he went to New South Wales as a storekeeper.
The son of a small storekeeper in Wisconsin, Selfridge at age 21 joined the wholesale-retail firm of Field, Leiter and Company (later Marshall Field and Company) in Chicago, where he worked for 25 years and became a junior partner.
His father had immigrated to the United States in 1783 and worked as a storekeeper.
Raised and educated in Scotland, she moved to New Zealand in the late 1860s, and in 1871 she married Walter Allen Sheppard, a storekeeper.
Two years of great poverty and heavy drinking followed before friends again rescued him with a job as a storekeeper at Camden Haven, N.S.W.
