[1880 Schedule of Defective, Dependent & Delinquent Cases: States that Alice had been suffering insanity 4 years (second bout of insanity), first incident occurred at age 23, was an inmate at the State Asylums in Trenton & Morris Plains for 10 years -- likely postpartum depression]
[NOTE: 1885 NJ Census shows James living with his 3 daughters but no wife]
1870 Census (Rockaway, Morris, New Jersey): Beer saloon, estimated date of birth 1836, no wife, children: Mary (b 1867) and Rosanna (b 1868). Living with Elizabeth Murphy (b 1838 Ireland), housekeeper
[1880 Schedule of Defective, Dependent & Delinquent Cases: States that Alice had been suffering insanity 4 years (second bout of insanity), first incident occurred at age 23, was an inmate at the State Asylums in Trenton & Morris Plains for 10 years -- likely postpartum depression]
[NOTE: 1885 NJ Census shows James living with his 3 daughters but no wife]
1870 Census (Rockaway, Morris, New Jersey): Beer saloon, estimated date of birth 1836, no wife, children: Mary (b 1867) and Rosanna (b 1868). Living with Elizabeth Murphy (b 1838 Ireland), housekeeper
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