Posting this for a friend. A friend of his was visited and escorted the census worker off his property.
"Read it and weep!"
Source Information
Ancestry.com. U.S. Federal Census - 1880 Schedules of Defective, Dependent, and Delinquent Classes [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Original data:
U.S. Federal Census Schedules of Defective, Dependent, and Delinquent. Microfilm, 1 roll. Bancroft Library, University of California Berkeley.
Schedules of Handicapped, Dependent, and Delinquent Inhabitants of Illinois (10th Federal Census). 1880. Microfilm, 5 rolls. Record Series 951.023. Illinois State Archives, Springfield.
Nonpopulation Census Schedules for Iowa, 1850-1880. (National Archives Microfilm Publication T1156, rolls 50-53). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
About U.S. Federal Census - 1880 Schedules of Defective, Dependent, and Delinquent Classes
In the 1880 U.S. Federal Census, a supplemental schedule called “Dependent, Defective, and Delinquent Classes” was included. This schedule included different forms to enumerate the following classes of individuals:
- Insane
- Idiots
- Deaf-mutes
- Blind
- Paupers and Indigent persons
- Homeless children
- Prisoners
This data collection currently contains these schedules for the following states:
- California
- Georgia
- Illinois
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Maine
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- Nebraska
- New Jersey
- New York
- Pennsylvania
- South Carolina
- Texas
- Virginia
- Washington
In addition to the individual’s name, their race, gender, age and residence were also included. For individuals with mental or physical illness, questions regarding their medical history were asked. For the homeless children, questions about their parents were asked. For the prisoners, details regarding their imprisonment were asked.
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