"Grandpa was a tinsmith, he started was a tinsmith
The forman of the shop"

From Grandpa Was A Tinsmith.

My Fathers father was Lars Peter Rasmussen, and was born and raised in Denmark. He was a tinsmith, as the song says, and took pride in having worked on a cathedral there. A tin cathedral? Nawwww... I'm sure they had drain pipes and flashing.. He came to this country as a young man and settled in a Danish community in Northern Wisconsin.
He met my Grandmother there, who was also Danish and had come here as a young woman. She came over here as a maid for the Diamond Family of Diamond Match... the largest manufacturere of matches in this country.

"Grandma worked for Diamonds
She started at the top"

My Mother's father had a dairy farm, Cedar Acres, in southern Wisconsin.

Jerry