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animal531
He also had a great surname.

As from Ancestry.com: Other occupational names include Archer, Baker, Brewer, Butcher, Carter, Clark, Cooper, Cook, Dyer, Farmer, Faulkner, Fisher, Fuller, Gardener, Glover, Head, Hunt or Hunter, Judge, Mason, Page, Parker, Potter, Sawyer, Slater, Smith, Taylor, Thatcher, Turner, Weaver, Woodman, and Wright.

JoeAltmaier
My favorite: Fletcher! Also Drover, Wakefield. Abbott, Banner, Sumner. Harper, Piper, Fiddler. Foster/Forester and Fowler. Glover, Granger, Hayward, Hoffman. Porter, Skinner, Snyder, Hooper, Joiner, Wagner, Waller. And Maier is also Farmer.
mc32
Cooper, Tanner, Turner and Wheeler too. Baxter is interesting in that at one point it was gendered (Baker/Baxter) I’m not aware of another one like that (Seamstress and Taylor but Seamstress isn’t a last name.

There're many more occupational examples. Wiki to the rescue[1]. Bleeker from iconic Bleeker Bob’s means Bleacher.

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Occupational_surnam...

sandworm101
Title is a bit off: "Jerry Merryman, one of the inventors of the hand-held electronic calculator"

There were mechanical handheld calculators before electronic ones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curta

"Curtas were considered the best portable calculators available until they were displaced by electronic calculators in the 1970s."