- 1890 Census Substitute, Salisbury NH
- 1890 Historical Insight -- Establishment of County Poorhouses
- 1897 Historical Insight -- Dr Barnum Brown, Fossil Hunter
1890 Census Substitute Index
No image. Amos Ham, NH, Merrimack County, Salisbury, 1890, page 002 of the NH 1890 Veterans Schedule
1890 Census Substitute
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| Amos Ham 1890 Veterans Schedule |
There are very very few censuses available for 1890. That's because, in 1921, there was a fire in the Commerce Department Building, in which most of the population schedules were badly damaged. Only fragments are available. The list is found on this website.
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| A newspaper photograph captured the scene after a devastating fire and pointed out the need for safe storage of national records. Photo courtesy of the National Archives. |
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| The Hollerith tabulator was used to tabulate the 1890 census—the first time a census was tabulated by machine. The illustration is of a Hollerith tabulator that has been modified for the first 1890 tabulation, the family, or rough, count -- the punched card reader has been removed, replaced by a simple keyboard. See: Truesdell, 1965, The Development of Punched Card Tabulation ..., US GPO, p.61 from Wikipedia, here |
1895 Salisbury Town Report
In this town report for Salisbury for 1895, we find Amos Ham's name listed. I'm not sure what this is for, exactly.
1897 Historical Insight -- Dr Barnum Brown, Fossil Hunter
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| Ancestry.com Historical Insight -- Dr Barnum Brown, Fossil Hunter
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Dr. Barnum Brown came from humble beginnings, but his interest in archaeology would lead him to world-renowned success. After his outstanding work as a student at University of Kansas, Dr. Brown was offered a spot on a fossil dig that was operated by the American Museum of Natural History. He was soon hired as a field assistant for the museum, and eventually became the curator over a massive collection of dinosaur fossils that he had found himself. While participating in a dig in Hell Creek, Montana, in 1902, he located “bones of a large Carnivorous Dinosaur. . . .[He had] never seen anything like it from the Cretaceous." Dr. Brown had, in fact, discovered the first skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex. Over the next few decades he made several more significant discoveries. Dr. Brown’s work made him a kind of scientific celebrity, and people flocked to see both him and the fossils he had unearthed.
Resources
- 1890 Census information
- https://www.census.gov/history/www/genealogy/decennial_census_records/availability_of_1890_census.html
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1890_United_States_Census
