Poor Farm Census: 1920 Census

FOURTEENTH CENSUS OF THE UNITED STATES: 1920 -- POPULATION

Supervisor's District 2 -- Enumeration District No. 74 -- Sheet No. 12A

Perry Township, Jackson County, Iowa:  Jackson County Home.  Enumerated by me on the 14th day of Feb. 1920.  L. B. Littlefield, Enumerator.

Column Headings (I did not transcribe blank columns 2, 3, 4, 7, 8 or 29)

PLACE OF ABODE
1: Street, avenue, road, etc. (Written here is Insane Patients Male, Insane Patients Female and Inmates Poor Dept.  I have put an "I" to indicate Insane and a "P" to indicate Poor.)
2: House number or farm, etc.  (This column had FM on line one and check marks all the way down the column)
3: Number of dwelling house in order of visitation (This column had 146 on line one and was blank the rest of the way down)
4: Number of family in order of visitation (This column had 146 on line one and was blank the rest of the way down)
5: NAME of each person whose place of abode on January 1, 1920, was in this family.  Enter surname first, then the given name and middle initial, if any.  Include every person living on January 1, 1920.  Omit children born since January 1, 1920.
6: RELATIONSHIP of this person to the head of the family
TENURE
7: Home owned or rented (This column had R on line one and was blank the rest of the way down)
8: If owned, free or mortgaged (This column was blank)
PERSONAL DESCRIPTION
9: Sex
10: Color or race
11: Age at last birthday
12: Single, married, widowed or divorced
CITIZENSHIP
13: Year of immigration to the United States
14: Naturalized or alien
15: If naturalized, year of naturalization
EDUCATION
16: Attended school any time since Sept. 1, 1919
17: Whether able to read
18: Whether able to write
NATIVITY AND MOTHER TONGUE. Place of birth of each person and parent of each person enumerated.  If born in the United States, give the state or territory.  If of foreign birth, give the place of birth and, in addition, the mother tongue.
PERSON
19: Place of birth  (I think NS might mean 'Not Sure' but it definitely NS)
20: Mother tongue
FATHER
21: Place of birth
22: Mother tongue
MOTHER
23: Place of birth
24: Mother tongue
25: Whether able to speak English
OCCUPATION
26:  Trade, profession, or particular kind of work done, as spinner, salesman, laborer, etc.
27:  Industry, business, or establishment in which at work as cotton mill, dry goods store, farm, etc.
28:  Employer, salary or wage worker, or working on own account
29: Number of farm schedule (This column had a 134 on line 1 and the rest was blank.)

Supervisor's District 2 -- Enumeration District No. 74 -- Sheet No. 12B