Military: Abington, Moreland and Hatboro Military Rolls for 1890: Montgomery Co, PA 1890 MILITARY ENROLLMENT LIST NAME AGE OCCUPATION MARITAL NOTES STATUS UPPER DISTRICT Boutcher, Walter 25 Clerk S. Boutcher, B. Frank 27 Merchant M. MORELAND UPPER DIVISION NAME AGE OCCUPATION MARITAL NOTES STATUS Marple, George 30 Carpenter M. Copyright © 1998 by Francis J. Devlin. This copy contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives. DEVLINFRANK@prodigy.net USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: Printing this file by non-commercial individuals and libraries is encouraged, as long as all notices and submitter information is included. Any other use, including copying files to other sites requires permission from the submitters PRIOR to uploading to any other sites. We encourage links to the state and county table of contents. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ ____________________________________________________________ This listing presents the military enrollment lists for the Morelands and Hatboro for the year 1890. It is a continuation of a project begun in Volume LIII (1993) and continued in Volume LIV (1994) of the Old York Road Historical Society Bulletin. It represents an attempt to fill the gap left by the destruction by fire in 1921 of the Federal Census for 1890. The rolls present a census of men between the ages of twenty-one and forty-five eligible for military service if the need for them were to arise. The rolls are preserved in the archives of the Montgomery County Historical Society in Norristown. The handwriting of the county registrar for the year 1890 is particularly difficult to decipher. Accordingly this list has been compared with the rolls for 1889 and 1891 to transcribe as accurately as possible the names and vital statistics for the men. Unfortunately, some indecipherable names appear only in 1890 and thus cannot be emended. These names are indicated by (?) directly after the name. The registrar also failed to record ages, professions, and marital status for some of the men. Where possible, this information has been abstracted from the two supplementary rolls and is indicated by inclusion in brackets < >. The registrar regularly lists the men with the first two initials or an abbreviated first name. Where these names can be identified by the listings in other years, this is indicated by parentheses within the name. The listing of trades and marital status in the three lists is remarkably consistent. However, the ages vary greatly from year to year especially as the candidate nears age forty-five. Variant ages from the 1889 record are given in parentheses if they seem significant. African-American citizens are indicated in the vocabulary of the day as "Colored." Sincere thanks are due to the Historical Society of Montgomery County, owners of the documents. President Edward T. Addison, Jr. has kindly given permission to undertake this project. Thanks are also due to Vivian Taylor at the SocietyÕs library for her invaluable cooperation.