Householder

Master or chief of a family; one who keeps house with his family.

Webster.

It "means more than the mere occupant of a room or house. It implies the idea of a domestic establishment."

37 Ala. 145.

But a man who has absconded from the state, and left his wife and children remaining together as a family, was for their benefit held to be a householder.

18 Johns. (N. Y.) 402.

And a single man renting a house in which he lodged with a younger brother has been held a householder.

2 Tex. App. 432.

A keeper of a tavern or boarding house, or a master or mistress of a dwelling house.

1 Supp. Rev. St. Mass. 1836-1853, Index, p. 170.

A person having and prohousekeeping.

14 Barb, (N. Y.) 456; 19 Wend. (N. Y.) 475.