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Mary Ward
4 years old
0 terms
Father – farmer
Mother – keeping house
Born in Iowa
Youngest of 6 children; your aunt Polly lives
with you and is a teacher
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Jane Basor
6 years old
3 terms
Father – carpenter
Mother – keeping house
Born in Iowa
One older brother Samuel is 14 and works at
the flour mill
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George Stevens
16 years old
20 terms
Father – died in the Civil War
Mother – runs a boarding house
Born in Iowa
Two older sisters; oldest sister Mary is
married to James who is a mason
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Thomas Lawley
8 years old
6 terms
Father – farmer
Mother – keeping house
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One older sister, two younger brothers; your
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Jenny Warren
5 years old
0 terms
Father – day laborer
Mother – keeping house
Born in Ohio
Second oldest of three children; your cousin
Mary is 16 and is a housekeeper
Mary Dougherty
7 years old
6 terms
Father – railroad worker
Mother – keeping house
Born in Illinois
Oldest of three children, your uncle Patrick
keeps a saloon in Iowa City
George Close
9 years old
11 terms
Father – foreman at paper mill
Mother – keeping house
Born in Iowa
Two older brothers, one younger sister;
brother Timothy is a day laborer
James Smally
9 years old
10 terms
Father – died in the paper mill explosion
Mother – sells butter, eggs, and other food to
the dry goods store
Born in Iowa
Two older brothers; your brother Matthew is a
farm laborer
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Nathaniel Gilmore
12 years old
17 terms
Father – farmer
Mother – keeping house
Born in New Jersey
Two older sisters, two younger sisters, two
younger brothers; your older sister Margaret
works at a millinery shop
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Walter Sinton
10 years old
15 terms
Father – works at woolen mill
Mother – keeping house
Your parents were born in Scotland
One younger brother, four older sisters; your
sister Louise lives with you and works at the
glove factory
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William Kirkwood
18 years old
25 terms
Father – farmer
Mother – keeping house
Born in Iowa
Oldest of four children; in the winter you work
part-time and cut ice on the Iowa River; in
the summer you are a farm laborer
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Mary McCann
9 years old
0 terms
Father – farmer
Mother – keeping house
Parents born in Ireland
Four older sisters, one younger brother; your
cousin Peter works as a day laborer
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Frank Ciha
11 years old
18 terms
Father – farmer
Mothers – seamstress
Born in Bohemia
One older brother, two younger sisters, and a
baby brother; your grandfather lives with you
and works as a day laborer
Horace Graham
8 years old
9 terms
Father – runs a tonsorial parlor
Mother – keeping house
Born in Pennsylvania
One younger brother, one older sister; your
grandfather lives with you and works at the
woolen mill
John Rice
8 years old
9 terms
Father – farmer
Mother – keeping house
Born in Iowa
One older sister, two younger brothers; your
sister Mary is married to Jim who is a
bricklayer
Patrick Tierney
11 years old
18 terms
Father – tailor
Mother – keeping house
Born in Ireland
Three older brothers; your brother Sean
works as a teamster
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John M. Sheets
12 years old
21 terms
Father – machinist
Mother – keeping house
Born in Iowa
One older brother, one older sister, one
younger brother, one younger sister; your
older brother James works as a farm laborer
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Joseph Smally
11 years old
15 terms
Father – died in the paper mill explosion
Mother – sells butter, eggs, and other food to
the dry good store
Born in Iowa
One older brother and one younger brother;
your older brother Matthew is a farm laborer
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Herman Bechtel
9 years old
12 terms
Father – cuts and delivers ice
Mother – keeping house
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Born in Germany
Two older sisters and one younger brother;
your uncle Matthew is a teamster
John Xantern
9 years old
11 terms
Father – local blacksmith
Mother – keeping house
Born in Minnesota
Four older brothers; your brother Michael is a
school teacher
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Harvey Graham
6 years old
3 terms
Father – runs the tonsorial parlor
Mother – keeping house
Born in Pennsylvania
One older brother, one older sister; your
grandfather lives with you and works at the
woolen mill
Lizzie Cook
11 years old
21 terms
Father – farmer
Mother – keeping house
Born in Ohio
Two older brothers; your brother Edward
works as a day laborer
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John Clark
13 years old
19 terms
Father – farmer
Mother – seamstress
Born in Iowa
Oldest of five children
Sara Price
8 years old
11 terms
Father – lime manufacturer
Mother – keeping house
Born in New York
Three older brothers; your brother John works
as a factory hand
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Jessie Williams
9 years old
10 terms
Father – farmer
Mother – keeping house
Born in Iowa
Two younger brothers, two younger sisters;
your grandfather lives with you and works at
the flour mill
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Theodore Dennis
11 years old
18 terms
Father – lawyer
Mother – keeping house
Born in Iowa
Two younger brothers, one older sister; your
cousin James works as a painter
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Otto Korn
12 years old
19 terms
Father – farmer
Mother – keeping house
Born in Germany
Two older brothers, one younger sister;
brother Frederick works as a day laborer
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Henrietta Bechtel
11 years old
8 terms
Father – cuts and delivers ice
Mother – keeping house
Born in Germany
Two younger brothers, one older sister; your
uncle Matthew is a teamster
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Emma Davis
10 years old
13 terms
Father – carpenter
Mother – keeping house
Born in Missouri
Two younger sisters; your cousin William lives
with you and works as a farm laborer
Hiram Price
14 years old
22 terms
Father – farmer
Mother – keeping house
Born in Illinois
Two younger brothers; you work part-time as
a laborer at the woolen mill
John Teesdale
14 years old
27 terms
Father – grocer
Mother – keeping house
Born in England
Two younger brothers, one younger sister;
you work during the summer as a day laborer
Calvin Henderson
10 years old
15 terms
Father – stone mason
Mother – keeping house
Born in Iowa
Two older brothers; your brothers work as
farm laborers
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Hally Graham
11 years old
18 terms
Father – runs a tonsorial parlor
Mother – keeping house
Born in Pennsylvania
Two younger brothers; your grandfather lives
with you and works at the woolen mill
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Anna Hummer
13 years old
17 terms
Father – deceased
Mother – housekeeper
Born in Germany
No siblings; your mother and you live with
your aunt and uncle; your uncle works in the
paper mill; you often help your mother as a
housekeeper
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Anna Joveskey
8 years old
8 terms
Father – works in the woolen mill
Mother – keeping house
Born in Bohemia
Two younger brothers, one older sister; your
sister Mary works in the button factory
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Ida Miller
9 years old
12 terms
Father – carpenter
Mother – keeping house
Born in New York
Two younger brothers; your aunt Mildred lives
with you and works as a housekeeper
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Vaclav Jedlicka
15 years old
4 terms
Father – farmer
Mother – keeping house
Born in Bohemia
Two older brothers; one of your brothers
works on the farm, the other is a flour mill
worker
Joseph Karbulka
14 years old
7 terms
Father – farmer
Mother – keeping house
Born in Bohemia
Two younger sisters; your grandfather lives
with you and works as a day laborer
Julia Kelley
7 years old
6 terms
Father – butter and egg packer
Mother – keeping house
Born in Iowa
Two older brothers, two younger sisters; your
brother James works in the woolen factory
Minnie Koser
8 years old
9 terms
Father – farmer
Mother – keeping house
Born in Iowa
Three older brothers, two younger sisters;
your brother Peter works at the sawmill
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Randolph Largent
13 years old
20 terms
Father – well digger
Mother – keeping house
Parents born in England
Two younger sisters, one younger brother;
your uncle William works at the lime kiln
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Elma Magruder
10 years old
17 terms
Father – machinist
Mother – keeping house
Born in Iowa
Two older brothers; your brother Robert
works as a farm laborer
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Michael McInnerny
16 years old
20 terms
Father – farmer
Mother – seamstress
Born in Illinois
Two younger brothers
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Ebenezer Roberts
20 years old
30 terms
Father – farmer
Mother – keeping house
Born in Iowa
One older brother; your cousin Marge works
as a domestic servant
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August Lenz
10 years old
13 terms
Father – farmer
Mother – keeping house
Born in Massachusetts
Three younger brothers; your grandfather
lives with you and works at the paper mill
Sara McGuire
9 years old
11 terms
Father – land breaker
Mother – keeping house
Born in New York
Three younger brothers; your cousin Mary
lives with you and works as a housekeeper
Jimmy McGillen
14 years old
20 terms
Father – farmer
Mother – keeping house
Born in Ireland
Two younger sisters; your cousin Thomas
works as a teamster
Polly Ritter
13 years old
24 terms
Father – grocer
Mother – deceased
Born in Iowa; parents born in England
Two younger brothers; your family lives with
your aunt and uncle; your uncle Mike works at
the flour mill
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Leroy Rundell
12 years old
16 terms
Father – farmer
Mother – keeping house
Born in Michigan
One older brother, two younger sisters; your
grandfather lives with you and works at the
woolen mill
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Electra Sutliff
10 years old
14 terms
Father – deceased
Mother – keeping house and selling
vegetables and goods to local grocer
Born in Iowa
One older brother, two younger brothers;
your older brother works as a stone mason
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Charity Swofford
5 years old
1 term
Father – works in the saloon
Mother – keeping house
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Born in Illinois
Two younger sisters; your cousin Julia lives
with your family and works in the paper mill
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Bertha Runyon
11 years old
16 terms
Father – works in the paper mill
Mother – keeping house
Born in Pennsylvania
Two younger brothers, three younger sisters;
your cousin Steve works as a farm laborer