Gregoire: In Point Marion PA 1910

Sometime between July of 1908 and 2-3 May 1910,  when the U.S. Census was enumerated in Point Marion, Fayette County, PA, Octave and Laure, and their children had moved to this town at the junction of the Monongahela and Cheat Rivers.

A 1902 illustration of Point Marion, Fayette County PA from
the Library of Congress.

Here there were glass factories.  Octave or someone in the household tells the enumerator that he works at a "Glass Works" as a "Lehr Tender."  

Portion of the 1910 U.S. Census for Point Marion, Fayette County, PA found on
ancestry.com, showing the Gregoires.  

A lehr tender, as I understand from my research thus far, watches over the lehr oven, in which the newly blown glass is placed to anneal, or strengthen.  The temperature must be maintained for heat and cold during the annealing process.  

The abstract of the above census information for the Gregoires shows that Octave worked as a "Bar Tender," which I believe is a transcription error.  I was able to look closely at and compare the way that the enumerator wrote "B's" and "L's" on the rest of the page, and am satisfied that he wrote "Lehr" not "Bar" Tender.  I submitted a correction to ancestry.com but they haven't corrected it yet.  Lehr is certainly an unusual word if you are not working in the glass industry.

  He was responsible for maintaining the temperature in the lehr oven, to ensure that the glass cooled evenly.  

Maurice was also working at the glass works as a "snapper."

Laura was keeping house for the family, and Nellie was attending school.  On this census, Nellie is recorded as "Nitaly."

Octave hasn't become a citizen yet - "papers" noted on the census probably refers to the fact that he has submitted them, and is waiting to hear.