He is from a good family that came into bad times after Ranvir's father; a textile merchant and exporter; committed suicide.

Inge's father was a textile merchant and the family owned a large home in Kippenheim.

Failing that, she would try the textile merchants.

In 1822, James became a textile merchant dealing in cotton.

After his football career, he became a textile merchant.

Dischel had taken up an apprenticeship as a textile merchant, but abandoned it.

He went to work for some textile merchants, for whom he became a traveling salesman.

In 1850 he returned to Bergamo, where he resumed his life as a textile merchant for the next decade.

After his time in prison, he changed his profession and became a textile merchant.

His father was a textile merchant whose career had extreme ups and downs - "we were constantly changing houses."