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The processing of the 1880 census data took so long (eight years) that the Census Bureau contracted Herman Hollerith to design and build a tabulating machine to be used for the next census. [8] [9] The 1880 census also led to the discovery of the Alabama paradox. Source: Table I, Population of the United States, by States and Territories [10]
New York did not conduct a census in 1885 because its Governor David B. Hill refused to support the proposed census due to its extravagance and cost. [16] [17] Governor Hill objected to the idea of spending so much state money on a state census that was as extravagant as the 1880 U.S. Census. [16] [17]
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May 30 – League of American Wheelmen is founded in Newport, Rhode Island. June 1 – United States Census is 50,155,783. More than 100,000 Chinese men and 3,000 Chinese women are living in the western United States. August 1 – Rufus W. Cobb is reelected the 25th governor of Alabama defeating James Madison Pickens.
However, the loss of several states' detailed census records in the Burning of Washington D.C. in the War of 1812 makes estimation difficult. Nearly all states that lost their 1790 (and 1800) census records have tried to reconstitute their original census from tax records etc. with various degrees of success.
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