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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Pauperism in the United States. (search)
g like a complete or adequate enumeration of them in the present census was a failure. The present census means the census of 1880. At the sixteenth conference of charities and correction, in Omaha, in 1889, the committee on reports from States expressed the opinion that it was safe to estimate the number of persons in the United States receiving out-door relief at an average of 250,000 during the year, including at least 600,000 different persons. This same committee, including Messrs. F. B. Sanborn and H. H. Hart, did not regard 110,000 persons as an overestimate of the population of the almshouses of the country. Five States of the Union alone report nearly half that number. These are New York, with 19,500 inmates of almshouses; Pennsylvania, with 13,500; Massachusetts, with 9,000; Ohio, with 8,000; and Illinois, with 5,000. These States, however, do not include much over one-third of the population of the country. Mr. Charles D. Kellogg, the able and devoted secretary of
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Sanborn, Franklin Benjamin 1831- (search)
Sanborn, Franklin Benjamin 1831- Author; born in Hampton Falls, N. H., Dec. 15, 1831; graduated at Harvard College in 1855; lectured at Cornell, Smith, Wellesley, and the Concord School of Philosophy; an active member of the Massachusetts State board of charities; editor of the Boston commonwealth, Springfield Republican, and Journal of social Science in 1876-97, and author of Life of Thoreau; Life and letters of John Brown, etc.