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The Private Journals of C.W. Mowll

其他書名	Family, Politics and Power in Mid-nineteenth Century Boston
出版	University of Delaware, 2006
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=NlToSgAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Charles Wills Mowll's Private Journals cover less than three years of an English immigrant's life in mid-nineteenth century Boston. Mowll came from a line of noted English mariners, but in 1849 he chose to bring his family to America. His efforts to be accepted by Boston middle-class society came at a time when industrialization, political turmoil over slavery, financial hardships, and health issues worked against him. Mowll's paymaster experience in the Royal Navy Slaver Fleet qualified him for a white-collar bookkeeper position with Littell publishers in Boston, but the Bank Panic of 1857 brought difficult economic times. Mowll also served as sexton at his church in East Cambridge, but his sexton's pay was slow due to the financial hard times. As the bad economic situation continued, Mowll's position at Littell weakened. Continuing health issues, probably resulting from his bout of yellow fever in the Royal Navy, were onerous and possibly affected his employment, which was terminated 17 April 1860. On 30 September 1862, Charles Wills Mowll, at age forty-six, died from consumption.