Jerry, I have seen the word 'founder' applied to a person who works 'founding ' type. They are the ones who made the type pieces for the old letterpresses used for printing for years. I believe it comes from 'foundry' - only in this case, it applies to pouring lead into the molds for the type pieces, not steel or iron for manufacturing. I used a 5" X 8" letterpress for printing business cards and other small announcements for many years. Bob S CA ----- Original Message ----- From: "gerald" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2008 7:25 PM Subject: Re: [OHHAMILT] Cincinnati directories to download!~ > Hi Folks, First I want to say just how wonderful it is to have this > virtual > libaray open, What a gift. Thank You!! to all who made it possiable. I > found > one of my kin listed in one of the 1840's directories, and it shows his > occupation as "FOUNDER" Does anyone know what a Founder did??, also are >