Rhode Island, State Census, 1915

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The collection consists of images and an index to population schedules of the census of Rhode Island taken by the state in 1915. The 1915 state census of Rhode Island lists residents as of April 15, 1915. Residents are listed by household and relationship to head of household is given. Children born after April 15, 1915 were not included. The census is arranged by county and then enumeration district. Enumeration Districts 108 through 113 (Cranston, Ward 2) are missing.

The census was compiled to obtain a count of the population of the state to determine how many representatives the state would send to Congress. Rhode Island began taking its own census every ten years on the half-decade year between 1865 and 1935. The 1895 state census is missing.

Censuses are usually reliable, depending on the knowledge of the informant and the care of the census enumerator. Information may have been given to a census taker by any member of the family or by a neighbor. Some information may have been incorrect or deliberately falsified. Population schedules were handwritten on printed forms by the enumerators.

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  1915 Rhode Island State Census