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1890 Federal Census

A fire destroyed many 1890 population and special schedules, and water used to extinguish the blaze damaged many more. As a result, the Government disposed of most schedules. The few remaining 1890 population schedules or fragments are indexed. For information about the 1890 schedules and the fire, see Kellee Blake, "First in the Path of Firemen: The Fate of the 1890 Population Census," Prologue: Quarterly of the National Archives and Records Administration 28 (Spring 1996): 64-81. The 1890 Special Schedules . . . Enumerating Union Veterans and Widows of Veterans of the Civil War (M123), are most important for providing data about the military service of veterans, including some Confederates. The information about post office addresses and sometimes streets and house numbers can lead outside the National Archives to important non-Federal records such as deeds, tax lists, and other property records that are mostly kept at local levels.

An act of March 1, 1889, provided that the Superintendent of Census in taking the Eleventh Census should "cause to be taken on a special schedule of inquiry, according to such form as he may prescribe, the names, organizations, and length of service of those who had served in the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps of the United States in the war of the rebellion, and who are survivors at the time of said inquiry, and the widows of soldiers, sailors, or marines." Which do exist for Maine.

Each schedule calls for the following information: name of the veteran (or if he did not survive, the names of both the widow and her deceased husband); the veteran's rank, company, regiment or vessel, date of enlistment, date of discharge, and length of service in years, months, and days; post office and address of each person listed; disability incurred by the veteran; and remarks necessary to a complete statement of his term of service.

The Maine 1890 Census records are lost for all counties.

Maine in 1890 consisted of the following counties: Aroostook, Androscoggin, Cumberland, Hancock, Franklin, Kennebec, Knox, Lincoln, Oxford, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Sagadahoc, Somerset, Waldo, Washington, and York.

There are two terrific Census Projects run by USGenWeb Project members.

https://sites.rootsweb.com/~census/states/maine/me1890.htm

http://www.us-census.org/states/maine/

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