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Yankee Destinies: The Lives of Ordinary Nineteenth-Century Bostonians

Yankee Destinies: The Lives of Ordinary Nineteenth-Century Bostonians

Knights, Peter R.

Paperback

Biographies GeneralRegional: New England

ISBN10: 1469613778
ISBN13: 9781469613772
Publisher: Univ Of North Carolina Pr
Published: Nov 15 2013
Pages: 310
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

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 Bostonians.

Using a broad array of sources -- manuscript census returns; tax assessments; city directories; birth, marriage, and death records for more than twenty states; cemetery records; newspapers; and family genealogies -- Peter Knights traced these men not only back to their origins in hundreds of small New England towns but also (for those who left) onward from Boston. He determined changes in their occupations and wealth and after they arrived in Boston, the fates of their marriages, their production of children, and -- in all but seventy cases -- their deaths and the causes thereof. The result is a comprehensive quantitative study of important aspects of the lives of what are probably the largest sample population groups for any North American community.

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