Time Flies

We are so excited!  Today we started working on probate records from the 1880s.  We have noticed several things toward the end of the 1870s.  Inheritance taxes are now a part of the probate file and we are occasionally seeing death certificates and marriage licenses.  Here is some history in the making during the 1880s.

• 1880--US Population exceeds 50 million
• 1881--Pogroms begin in Russia
• 1882--Chinese Exclusion Act
• 1883--Brooklyn Bridge Opens
• 1884--Mark Twain publishes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• 1885--The Statue of Liberty comes to America
• 1886--The American Federation of Labor founded in Columbus, Ohio
• 1887--Sherlock Holmes is introduced to readers by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• 1888--Jack the Ripper strikes fear in London
• 1889--North Dakota becomes a state