Amos L. Hamm part 7, 1890s

• 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

Amos L. Ham II on Ancestry.com

1890 Census Substitute

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.  

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.

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

Ancestry.com Historical Insight -- Dr Barnum Brown, Fossil Hunter

Credit: Getty Images

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
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