Research

Scope and Content Note

This series consists of a state-wide census of population administered through the Secretary of State's office. Each page of the schedules provides the block number (if any), election district number, ward number (if any), city or village, town, assembly district number, county, and name of the enumerator.

The categories of information are as follows: 1. Address (street or road, with house number if any); 2. Name of each person in the family as of June 1, 1915; 3. Relationship of each person to the head of the family; 4. Color or race; 5. Sex; 6. Age at last birthday; 7. Nativity (U.S. or foreign country); 8. Number of years in the U.S. (if born abroad); 9. Citizen or alien; 10. Occupation; 11. Employment "Class" (W.-person working on salary or wages; O.A.-person working for "own account," a "proprietor who is not an employer of labor"; Emp.-"employer of persons other than domestic servants"; X-"person not engaged in gainful occupation"); and 12. Residence of persons in institutions. No statistics of agriculture or industry were collected in this census. The Indian censuses found in the last volume (with Yates County) are available on microfilm.

Two volumes of Onondaga County schedules are missing, though there is no gap in the numbering of the volumes: Assembly District 2 lacks Fabius, Lafayette, Onondaga, Tully, and Wards 14, 18, and 19 of Syracuse; and Assembly District 3 lacks DeWitt, Manlius, Pompey, and Wards 10-17 of Syracuse. There is a loose-leaf binder listing each volume, with names of political subdivisions in each volume and microfilm roll numbers.