ChasH:
Thank you for the information. Looks like Edward Cowles is the head of a
very large (employees and inmates) and somewhat crazy family.
Howland Davis
-----Original Message-----
From: Ch <howell...@gmail.com>
To: LegacyUserGroup <LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com>
Sent: Sun, Mar 3, 2013 7:01 pm
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Census Head Of Household Question
I don't know if this can answer your question but here is the
1880 US Census Instructions to Enumerators, see at:
https://usa.ipums.org/usa/voliii/inst1880.shtml
"...The word family, for the purposes of the census, includes persons
living alone, as previously described, equally with families in the ordinary
sense of that term, and also all larger aggregations of people having only
the tie of a common roof and table. A hotel, with all its inmates,
constitutes but one family within the meaning of this term. A hospital, a
prison, an asylum is equally a family for the purposes of the census...
...In entering names in column 3, the name of the father, mother, or
other ostensible head of the family (in the case of hotels, jails, etc., the
landlord, jailer, etc.) is to be entered first of the family."
ChasH
On 3/3/2013 3:09 PM, Howlanddavisii wrote:
Luggers:
I have an ancestor who was a supervisor in an asylum for the
insane per the 1880 census. The first person listed for the dwelling
is the superintendent of the facility. When I write a citation for
the census, is he the head of the household or would I show the name
of the facility as the household name (i.e., McLean Asylum for the
Insane Household, 1880 U.S. Census, etc.)?
Thank you in advance for your thoughts.
Howland Davis
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