United States Census, 1870

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The United States Census of 1870 was the ninth United States Census. Conducted by the Census Bureau, it determined the resident population of the United States to be 39,818,449, an increase of 22.6 percent over the 31,443,321 persons enumerated during the 1860 Census.

Census Questions

The 1870 census collected the following information1:

  • name
  • address
  • age
  • sex
  • color (including Chinese and Indian)
  • citizenship for males over 21
  • profession, occupation or trade
  • value of real estate owned
  • value of personal estate
  • place of birth
  • whether father and mother were foreign born
  • born within the year
  • married within the year
  • attended school within the year
  • whether able to read and write (for persons 10 years old and over)
  • whether deaf and dumb, blind, insane or idiotic

Notes

  1. ^ "Library Bibliography Bulletin 88, New York State Census Records, 1790-1925" p. 44 (p. 50 of PDF). New York State Library (October 1981).

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