His father was a shipping merchant who was brought up as a Catholic but had Protestant sympathies, and his mother was a devout Independent unaffiliated with the Anglican Church.

Born in Riga in Livonia, then part of the Russian Empire, the Jewish German-speaking Nimzowitsch came from a wealthy family, where he learned chess from his father, who was a merchant.

His father was a merchant who came to the island from France to deal with the business affairs of a deceased uncle, and married his widow.

His father, Elias Boudinot III, was a merchant and silversmith ; he was a neighbor and friend of Benjamin Franklin.

His father, Thomas Gerry, was a merchant operating ships out of Marblehead, and his mother, Elizabeth ( Greenleaf ) Gerry, was the daughter of a successful Boston merchant.

Part of a well-established and colorful Boston family, Melville's father spent a good deal of time abroad as a commission merchant and an importer of French dry goods.

337 – 45 ), listening to his father's accounts of his own sea voyages as a merchant The father probably spoke in the Aeolian dialect of Cyme but Hesiod probably grew up speaking the local Boeotian dialect.

* Isaac of York – the father of Rebecca ; a Jewish merchant and money-lender

His father was Hugh Macdonald, an unsuccessful merchant, who had married Helen Shaw on 21 October 1811.

His father was an upper middle-class cotton merchant, and he was sent away to be educated as a boarder at Shrewsbury School.

He was born in Coleman Street in the City of London, where his father was a merchant.

His father Niccolò was a merchant who traded with the Middle East, becoming wealthy and achieving great prestige.

Anne Marie Simonsen was from Risør ; her father, Niels Henrik Saxild Simonsen, was a tradesman and merchant ship-owner, and said to be the richest person in Risør.

His Protestant father, Captain Roger Casement of ( The King ’ s Own ) Regiment of Light Dragoons, was the son of a bankrupt Belfast shipping merchant ( Hugh Casement ), who later moved to Australia.

According to most sources, her father, Ambroise-Franҫois, was a wealthy silk merchant.

His father was an architect and his mother was the daughter of a prosperous merchant.

Theodore's father, known in the family as " Thee ", was a New York City philanthropist, merchant, and partner in the family glass-importing firm Roosevelt and Son.

His father, John Butler Yeats ( 1839 – 1922 ), was a descendant of Jervis Yeats, a Williamite soldier and linen merchant who died in 1712.

His father was a glass and china merchant.

His father, James Williams ( 1562 – 1620 ), was a merchant tailor in Smithfield, England.

' Rich ' was an epithet sometimes given to his wealthy merchant father.

Beiderbecke's father, the son of German immigrants, was a well-to-do coal and lumber merchant, named after the Iron Chancellor of his native Germany.

His father became a rug merchant after emigrating to the United States, and expected that his son would go into the family business.

Due to a promise he had made to his father, which Arthur refused to break even after Henrich Floris's death, he felt obliged to go on with his merchant apprenticeship.

His father, Samuel Polk, was a slaveholder, successful farmer and surveyor of Scots-Irish descent.

Carson's father, Lindsey Carson, a farmer of Scots-Irish descent, had fought in the Revolutionary War under General Wade Hampton.

His father Abraham Van Buren ( 1737 – 1817 ) was a farmer, the owner of six slaves, and a tavern-keeper in Kinderhook.

His father was primarily a farmer though he was also deacon of the local Congregational church, captain of the town's militia, and a founder of a local book society — a precursor to the public library.

His father died a few months after the Second Republic's birth in 1931, while Pujol was completing his education as a poultry farmer.

* February 6 – Elias Disney, American farmer and father of Walt Disney ( d. 1941 )

** John Shakespeare, English glover and farmer, father of William Shakespeare ( b. 1529 )

His father, William Knox, was a farmer.

His father was a professor in agriculture and his grandfather was a farmer.

His father, Michael Lyons, was a successful farmer who afterwards engaged in a butchery and bakery business, but lost this on account of bad health, and subsequently was forced to work as a labourer.

While some whine about the injustice of it all, Bill accepts an invitation to live with a prosperous farmer and his family to learn what he needs to know, while his father signs on as an engineer in town.

* George Gibbs – arguably the main character ; the boy next door, a kind but irresponsible teenager who matures over time and becomes a responsible husband, father and farmer.

For the next 37 years, Edith performs the duties of farmer, housewife and nurse without ever seriously complaining, renouncing her personal freedom and refusing to get involved with men ( except for a brief romance with the narrator's father who, as would be expected, is rejected by her father as a " half-breed bastard ").

Her father was a cattle baron and orange farmer, and her mother was a well-known opera singer who gave up the stage to marry and raise a family.

Vandana Shiva was born in the valley of Dehradun, to a father who was the conservator of forests and a farmer mother with a love for nature.

His father was a farmer and school teacher ; his mother, a political activist.

Hendricks ' father became a moderately wealthy farmer, and operated a successful general store, and became involved in politics.

Siemens was born in the village of Lenthe, today part of Gehrden, near Hanover where his father, Christian Ferdinand Siemens ( July 31, 1787-January 16, 1840 ), a tenant farmer, farmed an estate belonging to the Crown.

" His father, the son of a farmer from Waikato, served in the army in Italy and became an accountant during World War II.

Albert Jack Stephens a farmer by trade, was the father of W. R. and Jack Stephens.

Her father moved the family to Dudley Lake in 1870 and became a farmer / planter in the area.

* James Earl Carter, Sr., farmer, businessman, legislator, father of President Jimmy Carter

Originally established in the early 19th century as an outpost and stop on the stage line that ran between Salisbury, North Carolina, and Danville, Virginia, called Wrights Crossroads, the Reidsville community grew from a single home and inn owned by the family of Reuben Reid ( a local farmer, businessman, and justice of the peace who was the father of David S. Reid ) into a thriving farming community primarily supporting tobacco production and cigarette manufacturing.

D. M. Bare moved with his wife to Spang's Mill in 1864 after having purchased the " Mill Seat Tract " with his father, a farmer from Sinking Valley in Blair County, north of Altoona.