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Indeed, the 1892 New York state census contained only seven questions — name, sex, age, color (race), country of birth, citizenship status, and occupation. [18] Meanwhile, the censuses from 1905 to 1925 asked for relationships of people to each other but also only asked for a country of birth. [ 15 ]
Former United States Senator Blanche Kelso Bruce is the first African-American to have his signature on American paper currency. He becomes the Register of the United States Treasury on May 21, 1881. June 12 – The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.
1881 elections in the United States by state (23 C) 1881 in American sports by state (11 C) A. 1881 in Alabama (2 C) 1881 in Arizona Territory (1 C, 7 P)
1881 in the United States by state or territory (49 C) / 1881 disestablishments in the United States (6 C, 6 P) 1881 establishments in the United States (51 C, 22 P) A.
The 1880 census determined the resident population of the United States to be 50,189,209, an increase of 30.2 percent over the 38,555,983 persons enumerated during the 1870 census. [7] The mean center of United States population for 1880 was in Boone County, Kentucky.
Data collected for the Eleventh United States Census indicate that the spread of the population into unsettled areas has resulted in the disappearance of the American frontier. The U.S. Census Bureau declares that it will no longer monitor westward migration in the country. [201] Jul 3: Idaho is admitted as the 43rd U.S. state. Jul 10
The average age at first marriage for both men and women began to fall after WWII, dropping 22.8 for men and 20.3 for women in 1950 and dropping even more to 22.5 and 20.1 years in 1956. In 1959, the United States Census Bureau estimated that 47% of all brides marrying for their first time were teenagers aged 19 and under.
June 1 – United States Census is 50,155,783. More than 100,000 Chinese men and 3,000 Chinese women are living in the western United States. August 1 – Rufus W. Cobb is reelected the 25th governor of Alabama defeating James Madison Pickens. September 30 – Amateur astronomer Henry Draper takes the first ever photograph of the Orion Nebula.