

Washington, DC: National Archives at Washington, DC. Population Schedules for the 1950 Census, 1950 - 1950. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1940. Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940. Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1930. Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930.

For details on the contents of the film numbers, visit the following NARA web page: NARA. Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. Original data: Thirteenth Census of the United States, 1910 (NARA microfilm publication T624, 1,178 rolls). Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1900.

Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900. (NARA microfilm publication T9, 1,454 rolls). Original data: Tenth Census of the United States, 1880. All use is subject to the limited use license and other terms and conditions applicable to this site. Census Index provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints © Copyright 1999 Intellectual Reserve, Inc.

Year: 1910 Census Place: Catawba, York, South Carolina Roll: T624_1468 Page: 5B Enumeration District: 0100 FHL microfilm: 1375481. Year: 1900 Census Place: Catawba, York, South Carolina Roll: 1545 Page: 11 Enumeration District: 0089 FHL microfilm: 1241545. Year: 1880 Census Place: Catawba, York, South Carolina Roll: 1243 Page: 434C Enumeration District: 165. Year: 1870 Census Place: Lewisville, Chester, South Carolina Roll: M593_1490 Page: 162B. Year: 1860 Census Place: Chester, South Carolina Roll: M653_1217 Page: 77 Family History Library Film: 805217. She was the daughter of Abram Adams and Eliza Fudge. Complete with maps and drawings, Literary Circles of Washington is a useful field guide and a nifty volume of anecdotes.Mary was born in 1854. Mary’s in Rockville), and Henry Adams (Rock Creek). Schafer tells us that the Willard Hotel has seen such guests as Walt Whitman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Emily Dickinson, while local cemeteries serve as the final resting places for Dashiell Hammett (Arlington), F. Porter responded, ‘Well, goodbye, Elinor,’ and closed the door.’” There, Elinor Wylie rang the doorbell of her friend Katherine Anne Porter, saying she intended to kill herself and Porter was the only one she wanted to say goodbye to. Schafer’s work is a fine tourist’s guide to these local markers, such as Katherine Anne Porter’s home in Georgetown, of which she writes, “Here’s a tidbit to ponder at 3106 P Street. Schafer includes, when possible, the street addresses of the writers and the locations of many noteworthy episodes, including Ezra Pound’s period of institutionalization. From the deck of the Cristoforo Colombo in Naples harbor, Pound gave the fascist salute and told Italian reporters, ‘All America is an insane asylum.’”Įdith Schafer’s Literary Circles of Washington is an economically written (seventy-five page) account of Washington DC’s role in the history of American literature. Schafer records, “The persistence of literary friends… eventually won his release and he returned to Italy. Elizabeth’s Hospital here in the nation’s capital from 1946 to 1958. He was eventually returned to the United States, put on trial for treason and found to be insane. While self-exiled in Italy, Pound spoke out against America during the war and was captured by the American military during the occupation of Italy. Sure, Washington is a political town, but the District of Columbia has also hosted many amazing American writers and some bizarre moments in America’s literary history.Įzra Pound, for example, one of the creative forces who shaped twentieth century American poetry, was sympathetic to the fascist powers ruling Italy in the 1930’s and during World War II. In the National Portrait Gallery Bookstore, a find for the sight-seeing literati…
