Riley County, Kansas State Census, 1915

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Riley County, Kansas is located on the western edge of northeastern Kansas, about 100 miles west of Kansas City. Riley was organized in 1855 in Kansas Territory and had grown to some 16,507 people by 1915. This database was taken from microfilm copies of original census sheets housed in the Kansas State Historical Society Library in Topeka. It consists of 14 fields: KSHS microfilm number, city/township, section, page within section, surname, given name, age, gender, race, birthplace, previous residence (before Kansas), occupation, honorable discharge from the military, and place enlisted. Information from these state censuses, taken at 10-year intervals midway between the federal census counts, can be valuable for those seeking detailed information on family who resided in early Kansas. In addition to this extracted information, the microfilm records also contain a wide range of personal information, such as literacy, deafness, dumbness, insanity, idioticy, pauperism, and conviction. Further information on time of immigration and on military service is also available on the microfilm records. Extensive agricultural data is also shown for farm residents.

Sources Brown, Mary Jane, comp. Riley County, Kansas State Census, 1915. [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2000-. Original data: Browder, Lewis, comp. "Riley County, Kansas Decennial Agricultural Census Extracts, 1915. Topeka, KS: Kansas State, 1915. Compiled from microfilm copies of original Kansas census sheets held by the Kansas State Historical Society of Topeka.

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