1900 United States Federal Census
Detail Source
Name: Joseph Duckworth
Age: 12
Birth Date: Dec 1887
Birthplace: Maryland, USA
Home in 1900: Lonaconing, Allegany, Maryland
Sheet Number: 15
Number of Dwelling in Order of Visitation: 167
Family Number: 284
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Son
Marital Status: Single
Father's Name: Ezikel Duckworth
Father's Birthplace: Maryland, USA
Mother's Name: Margaret Duckworth
Mother's Birthplace: Maryland, USA
Occupation: At School
Attended School: 9
Can Read: Yes
Can Write: Yes
Can Speak English: Yes
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members Age Relationship
Ezikel Duckworth 36 Head
Margaret Duckworth 34 Wife
Howard Duckworth 15 Son
Joseph Duckworth 12 Son
Elisebth Duckworth 11 Daughter
Jannet Duckworth 7 Daughter
John Duckworth 2 Son
Margret Duckworth 0 Daughter∼Miner Recollections:
The Cumberland Alleganian, Thursday, July 30, 1908
Mining Region News
The deaths of two coal miners, presented in last week's Recollection, heightened community awareness---George's Creek needed a miner's hospital. 101 years later, quality rural health care still poses many challenges. We hope you'll enjoy this look through the rear-view mirror as we "reprint" a part of our coal mining heritage.
More than a year ago there was talk of an emergency hospital for injured miners to be established in Lonaconing or Midland, and it was said that certain influential men in Cumberland would ask for state aid at the coming session of the legislature. The legislature convened and adjourned, but nothing was said about a hospital for miners. The deaths of Joseph Duckworth and William Patrick, two Lonaconing miners, who were crushed and torn in one of the big mines up the road, has revived the subject of an emergency hospital.
There are few occupations in the range of human endeavor so cheerless and fraught with danger as coal mining. Down in the gloomy caverns, hundreds of feet underground, breathing powder smoke and dust and menaced by a multiplicity of perils, against which no human foresight can guard, the patient miner delves into the vein of coal until the sweat and dust makes him as black as the material that he so laboriously displaces.
At any moment, death may come to him and his "butties." The roof caves in and his mangled body is taken out. If not dead, it is hours before medical aid can be procured. The stretcher is procured and the injured man, perhaps with severed arteries and broken limbs, is jostled to the mouth of the mine and put in a wagon or street car, and is hours - precious hours - on the way, and receives medical attention only after he reaches home and the family physician can be found.
The whole history of coal mining is one of tragedy. Every once in a while the country is startled by some great disaster such as that at Plymouth, Pittston, Dunbar, or Monongah, but minor tragedies are occurring all the time, and scarcely a week passes without a coal miner being killed or crushed in the mines on Georges Creek. Legs or arms are broken, ribs are cracked, fingers are jammed, and there is no help for the injured man until he reaches home, often miles away. There is an ambulance at the big mines up the road, but no ambulance surgeon. The physician does what he can, and the nursing is such as the overworked wife can provide. Often times, the man does not receive the care he should because of poverty, the result of long periods of enforced idleness. If he is on the books of the Mutual Aid Association, he is fortunate. But the small weekly allowance is completely inadequate to provide for a family and procure for the sick man the care and diet that he should have.
In other dangerous occupations, such as the manufacture of explosives, the perils involved are taken into consideration in the rewarding of labor, and similarly it would seem that the dangers of the coal mine should be considered. Nothing, however, than this latter is more removed from the fact. After a year of idleness or semi-idleness, the miners of Georges Creek are impoverished. An idle winter and spring put many miners of Georges Creek face to face with starvation, and if the stores went on a cash basis during these hard times, the wolf would have snarled at the door of many a coal digger here-abouts. And now, when just starting work, the miner in his honest anxiety to fill as many cars as possible and wipe out that long store bill is perhaps more liable to accident than ever before. The top coal or breast coal gets him and he is slowly and painfully jolted home in a street car or the company's ambulance without first aid to a home without money or resources.
This is a horrible condition of affairs and it's high time the coal companies did something toward the established of a hospital for those who are maimed and mangled in their employ.
At the last session of the legislature, the delegation from Allegany County was too busy with the Stump Bill, the repeal of the exemption law, and the higher license question to give a thought to the crippled coal digger or his family.
If the right men would interest themselves in the matter, the hospital would come. Let every minister of the gospel of Christ who has charge in the Georges Creek mining region take this subject for his text next Sunday - or some Sunday. Let the newspapers agitate it. Let the endeavorers endeavor in that direction. Let the Home Mission people take this as their mission for a while. Let the Good Times Society remember that it's very hard times in the house of a man who was brought home on a stretcher the other day with a broken leg. Let the Foreign Mission workers forget the Sioux need of suspenders, and cease from sending liver pads and mosquito netting to Borrebooliza, and all work together for a miner's hospital on Georges Creek. Charity begins at home.
"Miner Recollections Volume One 2018" is a compilation of the first 100 Recollections and includes the growing list of miners who perished while mining Georges Creek coal. Proceeds support the installation of a life-sized bronze statue and the educational landscaping that will surround it. Books are available at Armstrong Insurance in Frostburg or by contacting Polla Horn at [email protected] or Bucky Schriver at [email protected].
Detail Source
Name: Joseph Duckworth
Age: 12
Birth Date: Dec 1887
Birthplace: Maryland, USA
Home in 1900: Lonaconing, Allegany, Maryland
Sheet Number: 15
Number of Dwelling in Order of Visitation: 167
Family Number: 284
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Son
Marital Status: Single
Father's Name: Ezikel Duckworth
Father's Birthplace: Maryland, USA
Mother's Name: Margaret Duckworth
Mother's Birthplace: Maryland, USA
Occupation: At School
Attended School: 9
Can Read: Yes
Can Write: Yes
Can Speak English: Yes
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members Age Relationship
Ezikel Duckworth 36 Head
Margaret Duckworth 34 Wife
Howard Duckworth 15 Son
Joseph Duckworth 12 Son
Elisebth Duckworth 11 Daughter
Jannet Duckworth 7 Daughter
John Duckworth 2 Son
Margret Duckworth 0 Daughter∼Miner Recollections:
The Cumberland Alleganian, Thursday, July 30, 1908
Mining Region News
The deaths of two coal miners, presented in last week's Recollection, heightened community awareness---George's Creek needed a miner's hospital. 101 years later, quality rural health care still poses many challenges. We hope you'll enjoy this look through the rear-view mirror as we "reprint" a part of our coal mining heritage.
More than a year ago there was talk of an emergency hospital for injured miners to be established in Lonaconing or Midland, and it was said that certain influential men in Cumberland would ask for state aid at the coming session of the legislature. The legislature convened and adjourned, but nothing was said about a hospital for miners. The deaths of Joseph Duckworth and William Patrick, two Lonaconing miners, who were crushed and torn in one of the big mines up the road, has revived the subject of an emergency hospital.
There are few occupations in the range of human endeavor so cheerless and fraught with danger as coal mining. Down in the gloomy caverns, hundreds of feet underground, breathing powder smoke and dust and menaced by a multiplicity of perils, against which no human foresight can guard, the patient miner delves into the vein of coal until the sweat and dust makes him as black as the material that he so laboriously displaces.
At any moment, death may come to him and his "butties." The roof caves in and his mangled body is taken out. If not dead, it is hours before medical aid can be procured. The stretcher is procured and the injured man, perhaps with severed arteries and broken limbs, is jostled to the mouth of the mine and put in a wagon or street car, and is hours - precious hours - on the way, and receives medical attention only after he reaches home and the family physician can be found.
The whole history of coal mining is one of tragedy. Every once in a while the country is startled by some great disaster such as that at Plymouth, Pittston, Dunbar, or Monongah, but minor tragedies are occurring all the time, and scarcely a week passes without a coal miner being killed or crushed in the mines on Georges Creek. Legs or arms are broken, ribs are cracked, fingers are jammed, and there is no help for the injured man until he reaches home, often miles away. There is an ambulance at the big mines up the road, but no ambulance surgeon. The physician does what he can, and the nursing is such as the overworked wife can provide. Often times, the man does not receive the care he should because of poverty, the result of long periods of enforced idleness. If he is on the books of the Mutual Aid Association, he is fortunate. But the small weekly allowance is completely inadequate to provide for a family and procure for the sick man the care and diet that he should have.
In other dangerous occupations, such as the manufacture of explosives, the perils involved are taken into consideration in the rewarding of labor, and similarly it would seem that the dangers of the coal mine should be considered. Nothing, however, than this latter is more removed from the fact. After a year of idleness or semi-idleness, the miners of Georges Creek are impoverished. An idle winter and spring put many miners of Georges Creek face to face with starvation, and if the stores went on a cash basis during these hard times, the wolf would have snarled at the door of many a coal digger here-abouts. And now, when just starting work, the miner in his honest anxiety to fill as many cars as possible and wipe out that long store bill is perhaps more liable to accident than ever before. The top coal or breast coal gets him and he is slowly and painfully jolted home in a street car or the company's ambulance without first aid to a home without money or resources.
This is a horrible condition of affairs and it's high time the coal companies did something toward the established of a hospital for those who are maimed and mangled in their employ.
At the last session of the legislature, the delegation from Allegany County was too busy with the Stump Bill, the repeal of the exemption law, and the higher license question to give a thought to the crippled coal digger or his family.
If the right men would interest themselves in the matter, the hospital would come. Let every minister of the gospel of Christ who has charge in the Georges Creek mining region take this subject for his text next Sunday - or some Sunday. Let the newspapers agitate it. Let the endeavorers endeavor in that direction. Let the Home Mission people take this as their mission for a while. Let the Good Times Society remember that it's very hard times in the house of a man who was brought home on a stretcher the other day with a broken leg. Let the Foreign Mission workers forget the Sioux need of suspenders, and cease from sending liver pads and mosquito netting to Borrebooliza, and all work together for a miner's hospital on Georges Creek. Charity begins at home.
"Miner Recollections Volume One 2018" is a compilation of the first 100 Recollections and includes the growing list of miners who perished while mining Georges Creek coal. Proceeds support the installation of a life-sized bronze statue and the educational landscaping that will surround it. Books are available at Armstrong Insurance in Frostburg or by contacting Polla Horn at [email protected] or Bucky Schriver at [email protected].
1900 United States Federal Census
Detail Source
Name: Joseph Duckworth
Age: 12
Birth Date: Dec 1887
Birthplace: Maryland, USA
Home in 1900: Lonaconing, Allegany, Maryland
Sheet Number: 15
Number of Dwelling in Order of Visitation: 167
Family Number: 284
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Son
Marital Status: Single
Father's Name: Ezikel Duckworth
Father's Birthplace: Maryland, USA
Mother's Name: Margaret Duckworth
Mother's Birthplace: Maryland, USA
Occupation: At School
Attended School: 9
Can Read: Yes
Can Write: Yes
Can Speak English: Yes
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members Age Relationship
Ezikel Duckworth 36 Head
Margaret Duckworth 34 Wife
Howard Duckworth 15 Son
Joseph Duckworth 12 Son
Elisebth Duckworth 11 Daughter
Jannet Duckworth 7 Daughter
John Duckworth 2 Son
Margret Duckworth 0 Daughter∼Miner Recollections:
The Cumberland Alleganian, Thursday, July 30, 1908
Mining Region News
The deaths of two coal miners, presented in last week's Recollection, heightened community awareness---George's Creek needed a miner's hospital. 101 years later, quality rural health care still poses many challenges. We hope you'll enjoy this look through the rear-view mirror as we "reprint" a part of our coal mining heritage.
More than a year ago there was talk of an emergency hospital for injured miners to be established in Lonaconing or Midland, and it was said that certain influential men in Cumberland would ask for state aid at the coming session of the legislature. The legislature convened and adjourned, but nothing was said about a hospital for miners. The deaths of Joseph Duckworth and William Patrick, two Lonaconing miners, who were crushed and torn in one of the big mines up the road, has revived the subject of an emergency hospital.
There are few occupations in the range of human endeavor so cheerless and fraught with danger as coal mining. Down in the gloomy caverns, hundreds of feet underground, breathing powder smoke and dust and menaced by a multiplicity of perils, against which no human foresight can guard, the patient miner delves into the vein of coal until the sweat and dust makes him as black as the material that he so laboriously displaces.
At any moment, death may come to him and his "butties." The roof caves in and his mangled body is taken out. If not dead, it is hours before medical aid can be procured. The stretcher is procured and the injured man, perhaps with severed arteries and broken limbs, is jostled to the mouth of the mine and put in a wagon or street car, and is hours - precious hours - on the way, and receives medical attention only after he reaches home and the family physician can be found.
The whole history of coal mining is one of tragedy. Every once in a while the country is startled by some great disaster such as that at Plymouth, Pittston, Dunbar, or Monongah, but minor tragedies are occurring all the time, and scarcely a week passes without a coal miner being killed or crushed in the mines on Georges Creek. Legs or arms are broken, ribs are cracked, fingers are jammed, and there is no help for the injured man until he reaches home, often miles away. There is an ambulance at the big mines up the road, but no ambulance surgeon. The physician does what he can, and the nursing is such as the overworked wife can provide. Often times, the man does not receive the care he should because of poverty, the result of long periods of enforced idleness. If he is on the books of the Mutual Aid Association, he is fortunate. But the small weekly allowance is completely inadequate to provide for a family and procure for the sick man the care and diet that he should have.
In other dangerous occupations, such as the manufacture of explosives, the perils involved are taken into consideration in the rewarding of labor, and similarly it would seem that the dangers of the coal mine should be considered. Nothing, however, than this latter is more removed from the fact. After a year of idleness or semi-idleness, the miners of Georges Creek are impoverished. An idle winter and spring put many miners of Georges Creek face to face with starvation, and if the stores went on a cash basis during these hard times, the wolf would have snarled at the door of many a coal digger here-abouts. And now, when just starting work, the miner in his honest anxiety to fill as many cars as possible and wipe out that long store bill is perhaps more liable to accident than ever before. The top coal or breast coal gets him and he is slowly and painfully jolted home in a street car or the company's ambulance without first aid to a home without money or resources.
This is a horrible condition of affairs and it's high time the coal companies did something toward the established of a hospital for those who are maimed and mangled in their employ.
At the last session of the legislature, the delegation from Allegany County was too busy with the Stump Bill, the repeal of the exemption law, and the higher license question to give a thought to the crippled coal digger or his family.
If the right men would interest themselves in the matter, the hospital would come. Let every minister of the gospel of Christ who has charge in the Georges Creek mining region take this subject for his text next Sunday - or some Sunday. Let the newspapers agitate it. Let the endeavorers endeavor in that direction. Let the Home Mission people take this as their mission for a while. Let the Good Times Society remember that it's very hard times in the house of a man who was brought home on a stretcher the other day with a broken leg. Let the Foreign Mission workers forget the Sioux need of suspenders, and cease from sending liver pads and mosquito netting to Borrebooliza, and all work together for a miner's hospital on Georges Creek. Charity begins at home.
"Miner Recollections Volume One 2018" is a compilation of the first 100 Recollections and includes the growing list of miners who perished while mining Georges Creek coal. Proceeds support the installation of a life-sized bronze statue and the educational landscaping that will surround it. Books are available at Armstrong Insurance in Frostburg or by contacting Polla Horn at [email protected] or Bucky Schriver at [email protected].
Detail Source
Name: Joseph Duckworth
Age: 12
Birth Date: Dec 1887
Birthplace: Maryland, USA
Home in 1900: Lonaconing, Allegany, Maryland
Sheet Number: 15
Number of Dwelling in Order of Visitation: 167
Family Number: 284
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Son
Marital Status: Single
Father's Name: Ezikel Duckworth
Father's Birthplace: Maryland, USA
Mother's Name: Margaret Duckworth
Mother's Birthplace: Maryland, USA
Occupation: At School
Attended School: 9
Can Read: Yes
Can Write: Yes
Can Speak English: Yes
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members Age Relationship
Ezikel Duckworth 36 Head
Margaret Duckworth 34 Wife
Howard Duckworth 15 Son
Joseph Duckworth 12 Son
Elisebth Duckworth 11 Daughter
Jannet Duckworth 7 Daughter
John Duckworth 2 Son
Margret Duckworth 0 Daughter∼Miner Recollections:
The Cumberland Alleganian, Thursday, July 30, 1908
Mining Region News
The deaths of two coal miners, presented in last week's Recollection, heightened community awareness---George's Creek needed a miner's hospital. 101 years later, quality rural health care still poses many challenges. We hope you'll enjoy this look through the rear-view mirror as we "reprint" a part of our coal mining heritage.
More than a year ago there was talk of an emergency hospital for injured miners to be established in Lonaconing or Midland, and it was said that certain influential men in Cumberland would ask for state aid at the coming session of the legislature. The legislature convened and adjourned, but nothing was said about a hospital for miners. The deaths of Joseph Duckworth and William Patrick, two Lonaconing miners, who were crushed and torn in one of the big mines up the road, has revived the subject of an emergency hospital.
There are few occupations in the range of human endeavor so cheerless and fraught with danger as coal mining. Down in the gloomy caverns, hundreds of feet underground, breathing powder smoke and dust and menaced by a multiplicity of perils, against which no human foresight can guard, the patient miner delves into the vein of coal until the sweat and dust makes him as black as the material that he so laboriously displaces.
At any moment, death may come to him and his "butties." The roof caves in and his mangled body is taken out. If not dead, it is hours before medical aid can be procured. The stretcher is procured and the injured man, perhaps with severed arteries and broken limbs, is jostled to the mouth of the mine and put in a wagon or street car, and is hours - precious hours - on the way, and receives medical attention only after he reaches home and the family physician can be found.
The whole history of coal mining is one of tragedy. Every once in a while the country is startled by some great disaster such as that at Plymouth, Pittston, Dunbar, or Monongah, but minor tragedies are occurring all the time, and scarcely a week passes without a coal miner being killed or crushed in the mines on Georges Creek. Legs or arms are broken, ribs are cracked, fingers are jammed, and there is no help for the injured man until he reaches home, often miles away. There is an ambulance at the big mines up the road, but no ambulance surgeon. The physician does what he can, and the nursing is such as the overworked wife can provide. Often times, the man does not receive the care he should because of poverty, the result of long periods of enforced idleness. If he is on the books of the Mutual Aid Association, he is fortunate. But the small weekly allowance is completely inadequate to provide for a family and procure for the sick man the care and diet that he should have.
In other dangerous occupations, such as the manufacture of explosives, the perils involved are taken into consideration in the rewarding of labor, and similarly it would seem that the dangers of the coal mine should be considered. Nothing, however, than this latter is more removed from the fact. After a year of idleness or semi-idleness, the miners of Georges Creek are impoverished. An idle winter and spring put many miners of Georges Creek face to face with starvation, and if the stores went on a cash basis during these hard times, the wolf would have snarled at the door of many a coal digger here-abouts. And now, when just starting work, the miner in his honest anxiety to fill as many cars as possible and wipe out that long store bill is perhaps more liable to accident than ever before. The top coal or breast coal gets him and he is slowly and painfully jolted home in a street car or the company's ambulance without first aid to a home without money or resources.
This is a horrible condition of affairs and it's high time the coal companies did something toward the established of a hospital for those who are maimed and mangled in their employ.
At the last session of the legislature, the delegation from Allegany County was too busy with the Stump Bill, the repeal of the exemption law, and the higher license question to give a thought to the crippled coal digger or his family.
If the right men would interest themselves in the matter, the hospital would come. Let every minister of the gospel of Christ who has charge in the Georges Creek mining region take this subject for his text next Sunday - or some Sunday. Let the newspapers agitate it. Let the endeavorers endeavor in that direction. Let the Home Mission people take this as their mission for a while. Let the Good Times Society remember that it's very hard times in the house of a man who was brought home on a stretcher the other day with a broken leg. Let the Foreign Mission workers forget the Sioux need of suspenders, and cease from sending liver pads and mosquito netting to Borrebooliza, and all work together for a miner's hospital on Georges Creek. Charity begins at home.
"Miner Recollections Volume One 2018" is a compilation of the first 100 Recollections and includes the growing list of miners who perished while mining Georges Creek coal. Proceeds support the installation of a life-sized bronze statue and the educational landscaping that will surround it. Books are available at Armstrong Insurance in Frostburg or by contacting Polla Horn at [email protected] or Bucky Schriver at [email protected].
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