They Were There at the Beginning
At that point, Kanaby had no doubt his instincts were correct and that the two authors of the message in the bottle were the bricklayers who had built Montclair’s College Hall more than 100 years ago. But he still needed to prove they were real. Luckily, the New Jersey census data was extremely revealing.
No, it’s not easy to track two mostly anonymous men who have presumably been dead for more than half a century. And yet, there they were, in the 1920 and 1930 New Jersey census!
