Most of the following nonpopulation census schedules provide names of businesses or individuals along with further information about them: agricultural; manufacturers/industry; social statistics; mortality; and defective, dependent, and delinquent classes.
Note: Some schedules for some states are not available from Ancestry Library. Bowdoin College Library does not hold microfilm for states other than Maine. Some schedules not available at Bowdoin may be available at other libraries or archives. Please ask us.
| Schedule | Includes names of ... | Years taken | Availability at Bowdoin |
|---|---|---|---|
| agricultural: information about farms, e.g. name, acreage, machinery, livestock, produce | owner, agent, tenant, or manager | 1850-1880 |
From Ancestry Library, choose Search > Card catalog. Enter the name of the database: Selected U.S. Federal Census Non-Population Schedules, 1850-1880. Then click on that title in the results list on the right. Some fragments of the 1810 manufacturers schedules appear in the 1810 population schedules.
1850: Census schedules for agriculture, industry & social statistics. Maine. 1860: Census schedules for agriculture, industry & social statistics. Maine. 1870: Census schedules for agriculture, industry & social statistics. Maine. 1880: Census schedules for agriculture, industry & social statistics. Maine. State Samples from the Census of Manufacturing: 1850, 1860, and 1870 (ICPSR 4071) National Samples from the Census of Manufacturing: 1850, 1860, and 1870 (ICPSR 4048) |
| manufacturers, industry: information about businesses (may include manufacturing, mining, fisheries, mercantile, commercial, trading) and their products, e.g. name, kind of establishment, goods produced, raw materials, persons employed, machinery, capital, wages, expenses | owner or company | manufacturers: 1810-1820, 1880; industry: 1850-1870 |
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| social statistics: statistics on crime, real estate, wages, churches, schools, newspapers, libraries, cemeteries, clubs, public debt | no names, statistics only | 1850-1880 | |
| mortality: information on persons who had died during the 12 months preceding the date of the census, e.g. name, age, sex, race, slave or free, marital status, place of birth, length of residence in U.S., place of birth of parents, whether parent foreign born, occupation, month of death, cause of death and where contracted, number of days ill, attending physician | individual who had died | 1850-1880 |
From Ancestry Library, choose Search > Card catalog. Enter the name of the database: U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1850-1885; U.S., Federal Census Mortality Schedules Index, 1850-1880; or New York, U.S. Census Mortality Schedules, 1850-1880. Then click on that title in the results list on the right. United States Census (Mortality Schedule), 1850, FamilySearch 1850 Aroostook County census returns, mortality schedules with index |
| defective, dependent, and delinquent classes: information about the insane, "idiotic", deaf, blind, homeless children in institutions, prison inhabitants, paupers and indigents | individual | 1880 |
From Ancestry Library, choose Search > Card catalog. Enter the name of the database: U.S. Federal Census - 1880 Schedules of Defective, Dependent, and Delinquent Classes. Then click on that title in the results list on the right.) |
Source: Agricultural schedules 1850 to 1900, in Twelfth Census of the United States,
1900 Census Reports Volume V – Agriculture Part I, Farms, Livestock, and Animal Products
