I agree with other comments - this should be a more popular list. I have blacksmiths in both my maternal and paternal lines of ancestors. My maternal great grandfather Gideon Turcotte was a blacksmith as was his son Loumey. Gideon immigrated from Kingsey, Quebec to Newport Vermont about 1862 and then to Pawtucket, Rhode Island about 1901. In Vermont, he used the name James Hitchcock for a time. His son Loumey even applied for and received a patent for a "new" type of horseshoe. I was lucky (persistent?) enough to find a copy of the patent on the on-line US Patent site. My paternal grandfather, Alex McIntosh was also a blacksmith. According to family stories, he learned the trade from a blacksmith in Colorado. He left Cape Breton to go out west in search of gold, and ended up working for a blacksmith in Ouray and later the National Bell Mining Company and other mining companies. He eventually moved to Hot Springs Arkansas and was a blacksmith there. He had a shop of his own from 1904 to 1909 and at other times he worked for a William Shelton and also a J.G. White. He also worked for the Army and Navy Hospital in Hot Springs. I don't know where his first shop was, but he lived on Poplar Street. I saw there was another Hot Springs Arkansas blacksmith on the list -would love to know if he is familiar with other blacksmiths in Hot Springs. My grandfather lived there from about 1904 until he died in 1967. Cheryl in Massachusetts