1.   The security of a government-funded human services position had been an improvement over the uncertainty of a solo carpentry business.

2.   After his first few years in New York, he said, he returned home to start a small carpentry business in Mexico City.

3.   Dan Sullivan left his own carpentry business in Oregon to help.

4.   His father, Irving Lodell Anderson, was a socialist who led a musical group and ran a small carpentry business.