: Oneida Community: An Autobiography, 1851-1876 . Constance Noyes Robertson.

Mortality in an early Ontario community: Belleville 1876-1885.

This study contributes to our understanding of health in late nineteenth-century communities in Ontario and the major factors contributing to the high mortality of the period. The focus of the study is Belleville, Ontario, from 1876 to 1885. Life expectancies at birth in the low forties characterized the community with infant mortality rates in the very high range, 160 per 1000 live-births. Maj...

An Autobiography of Polyadi Algebras

An autobiography of Polyadic Algebras

In the 1950’s I set out to revolutionize logic. I didn’t succeed (not yet!), but it wasn’t for want of trying. Logic has always fascinated me. In the common-sense sense of the word logic was easy; I had no inclination to commit the obvious errors of reasoning, and long chains of deductions were not intimidating. When I was told about syllogisms, I said “sure, obviously”, and didn’t feel that I ...

Persistence in a local community: Kingston upon Thames 1851-1891.

It is no easy task to measure the degree of persistence within a local community, or, in particular, to identify those individuals who remained within their local community over a number of years. The records required to carry out such an inquiry undoubtedly exist—in the form, for example, of parish registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, municipal burial registers, poll books, electoral ...

The Autobiography of W.E.B. DuBois: An Analysis