Joseph M. Burdock [Burdick], 1870 U.S. census, Chicago, Cook Co., Ill., Ward 14, p. 582, dwelling 1455, family 1657: FIRE INS. AGENT.
Robert G. Turk, 1920 U.S. census, Binghamton, Broome Co., N.Y., Ward 3, Enum. Dist. 18, sheet 8B, dwelling 167, family 230: FOREMAN CITY STABLES.
What's your most doomed occupational find?
In other reading . . .
. . . the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society's blog takes a look at haunting forms of decease in old New York.
. . . those who appreciate the Napoleonic Era nautical-historical novels of Patrick O'Brian may want to check out a New-York-based novel set half a century earlier. One reviewer called Francis Spufford's Golden Hill "the best eighteenth-century novel since the eighteenth century."
. . . if you'd like to have a long leisurely dinner with a historian who knows all about what went on in the US between 1815 (end of the War of 1812) and 1848 (end of the Mexican War), you're out of luck. But you can read the book What Hath God Wrought by Daniel Walker Howe.
Monday, October 30, 2017
Census entries that have "DOOM" written all over them, and some good reading
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Thursday, April 17, 2014
Glimpse of the past: at work 181 years ago
The seven commonest reported occupations in a New York City directory of July 1833:
No Business Named . . . 3326
Widow . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2963
Merchant . . . . . . . . . . . 2255
Grocer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2106
Carter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1581
Carpenter . . . . . . . . . . . 1392
Shoemaker . . . . . . . . . . 999
At the other end, I spotted a total of only 350 clerks/accountants/bookkeepers/secretaries, nine "comedians," one "bone turner," and one "philosophical instru. maker."
Most of these people did not have "jobs" as we think of them today. They were in business for themselves.
Edwin Williams, "Classification of Citizens," in The New-York Annual Register for . . . 1834 (New York: author, 1834), 267-74, citing Longworth's July 1833 City Directory; digital images, Google Books (http://books.google.com/books?id=IxcXAAAAYAAJ : viewed 1 April 2014).
Harold Henderson, "Glimpse of the past: at work 181 years ago," Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog, posted 17 April 2014 (http://midwesternmicrohistory.blogspot.com : viewed [date]). [Please feel free to link to the specific post if you prefer.]
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