Census Questions
The 1860 census collected the following information:
- name
- address
- age
- sex
- color (white, black or mulatto) for each person
- freeman or slave (if in a Southern state)
- whether deaf and dumb, blind, insane or idiotic
- value of real estate and of personal estate owned (required of all free persons)
- profession, occupation or trade of each male and female over 15 years of age
- place (state, territory or country) of birth
- whether married within the year
- whether attended school within the year
- whether unable to read and write (for persons over 20)
- whether a pauper or convict
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