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List of City and County Employees, with Their Residences and Salaries, Etc (download)

Product Code: US0254-DL
Number of CDs: 0
Pages: 290
Pub. Date: (1888) 2007
File Size: 16,130,920 bytes
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Driven by local politics, a committee appointed by the Boston City Council compiled a detailed list of all those individuals who were employed by the city in 1888. The result is a collection of detailed information on thousands of men and women, from the mayor to the lamplighters and streetsweepers.

The list is arranged by department, beginning with the mayor's office. Each entry provides the name of the employee, his or her birthplace, the date of appointment to the office, the employee's residence at the time of appointment and also in 1888, and the rate of pay at the time of appointment and in 1888.

For example, within the Health Department, "Cleary, Thomas, Ash-driver," was born in Ireland and was appointed in 1856. His residence in 1856 was Hamburg Street, Ward 10, and in that year he was paid $1.12 a day. In 1888 he lived at 6 Chadwick Court, Ward 20, and received $2.00 a day.

This list provides an excellent social and economic snapshot of the city of Boston in the late nineteenth century, and also serves as a partial substitute for the lost Federal census of 1890.

Summary by Robert Charles Anderson, FASG
for Archive CD Books USA

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List of City and County Employees, with Their Residences and Salaries, Etc (download)

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