jobber

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Founder Dan Evins, a Tennessee oil jobber, envisioned a restaurant and retail operation themed around old-time country stores, where people gathered to play checkers on barrels once used to deliver crackers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 25, 2025

Dan’s father, who had studied language and philosophy at Krakow University but had ended up a textile jobber in New York, did not approve of the enterprise, despite its fast start.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 6, 2018

But it wasn't all like that, according to Brian Winterflood, later the founder of Winterflood Securities, who had been a jobber at Greener Dreyfus since the 1950s.

From BBC • Oct. 26, 2016

In 1954, he started a jobber business, buying, selling and recycling fabric scraps.

From New York Times • Feb. 16, 2015

Alexander confessed that he was bankrupt for lack of more worlds, and is reputed to have shed tears over his failure, which might have been expected from a modern dry-goods jobber, but not from Alexander.

From Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various