He was the son of a carriage maker.
His father Darwin Rutenber was a carriage maker by trade.
Thompson apprenticed as a carriage maker with his father until he was twenty-one.
The town also had a carriage maker, nine sawmills and three gristmills.
In their heyday, British carriage makers turned out hundreds of models each year.
Her father was an occasional lay preacher and carriage maker;coach builder.
After two years his father, a retired carriage maker, urged him to quit college and enter business.
Their mother, whose own father had been a carriage maker in his native Germany, was mechanically inclined.
He also worked as a carpenter and a carriage maker.
Martin is a secondary school art teacher and a carriage maker.