An Industrious Census Taker in 1860
Columbia [PA] Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser
July 28, 1860, Image 3
1860 Lawrence County, Ohio Index
Mr. J. L. Barber, Assistant Marshall in Lawrence county, Ohio, thus sums up his week’s labor in a note to the U.S. Marshal:-
“I commenced on Monday at noon, walking ten miles from home, visiting every house in Lawrence township, filled thirty pages of Schedule No. 1, four of No. 4, and took all the other statistics. He walked over 100 miles through the brush, briars, wheat, and corn fields and named two babies: James Buchanan and Lewis Clifford?.
I finished the township by Saturday noon and walked home, a distance of fifteen miles, by sunset. And all this time, the mercury was 90 deg. Fahrenheit.”
We call that a week’s work that few men have equaled. After this, we have no aspiration to become census takers.
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