The Lives of Ordinary Nineteenth-Century Bostonians
by
Peter R. Knights
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
This book reconstructs important milestones in the lives of 2,808 white, native-born men who resided in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1860 or 1870. Selected systematically from the census for those two years, these men represent two cross-sections of those viewed by contemporaries as "typical"...