Alternative names used for the occupation include "fallen
angel." In 1880, an enumerator in Champaign, Illinois, listed
"fallen angel" as the occupation for both 25-year-old Nellie
Hobin and 19-year-old Emma Bracket.Along those lines, "fallen
woman" was in vogue at times. In 1880, we find ten residents at
the Home for Fallen Women in Baltimore, Maryland. These women
appear to have left a life of prostitution. We find a 21-year-
old "inmate," Laura Airoba, enduring cancer. A search for "lewd
woman" will lead us to 25-year-old Katie, a Chinese immigrant
living in Grantsville, Nevada, in 1880, with her brother. In
1880, Minnie Cooper was a 32-year-old boarder in Bois D'Arc,
Arkansas, whose occupation was simply "lewd." In Morgan,
Alabama, we find four lewd women living together. We have no
reason not to believe that Ida Settles, Bettie Watts, Lew Day,
and Maggie Roberts gave their real names to the enumerator. Most
enumerators used the term prostitute. Search for the term in any
genealogical database, and it will