Although he owned a controlling interest in the rambling Conway House, Timothy Wolcott took any opportunity to earn more cash, and in the spring of 1860 he accepted the job of census marshal for his town. Tourists rarely started coming north before July, but long winters could impede travel well into May, so he collected the census in June. On June 11, in North Conway, he turned up the only side street in the village, which was probably not yet called Kearsarge Street. In the first house on the left he took the names of a stonemason named Joseph Dinsmore, his wife Martha, his mother, his son, and a 24-year-old boarder by the name of Nathan W. Pease, who made his living as a “daguerreotypist.”

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