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Benjamin GRIFFIN <[log in to unmask]>
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That would be Jenny:

"Jenny," in Biographical Directory, *Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer among the
Indians and Other Unfinished Stories* <
http://www.marktwainproject.org/xtf/view?docId=works/MTDP10360.xml;style=work;brand=mtp;chunk.id=bd1099
>


On Sat, May 5, 2018 at 1:06 PM, Barbara Schmidt <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> Samuel Clemens does appear in the following censuses that are available at
> ancestry.com:
>
> 1850 - Hannibal, Missouri
> 1860 - St. Louis, Missouri
> 1870 - Buffalo, New York
> 1880 - Hartford, CT
> 1900 - Hartford, CT
> 1910 - Redding, CT
>
> The Redding census sheet is interesting because the census taker has dated
> it one day after Clemens's death, April 22.  However, user comments on
> ancestry regarding this sheet indicate the actual census was taken on April
> 15, 1910.
>
> If you do not have a full subscription to ancestry.com it may be difficult
> to zero in on these sheets.  However, if you are a subscriber, there are a
> list of SUGGESTED RECORDS for each individual that lead directly to the
> other census sheets.  His name has often been misspelled by transcribers
> and other researchers have provided corrected spellings and
> identifications. There are a number of amusing transcriber errors related
> to some of these census sheets.  For example, the 1870 census sheet has
> Clemens's occupation as "clerk in dry goods" rather than "Prop. daily
> paper". The 1910 census sheet has his occupation transcribed as "Waiter"
> "hardware st" rather than "Writer" "Humorist."
>
> As to the 1840 census -- Samuel Clemens is not listed by name, but his
> father John Marshall Clemens and household members are in the Mason
> Township, Marion County, Missouri census.  As another Forum member, Bob
> Stewart, recently pointed out to me, there is only one slave listed in the
> family household -- a female between the ages of 10 - 23.
>
> Barb
>



-- 
Benjamin Griffin
Associate Editor, Mark Twain Project
The Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley 94720-6000
(510) 664-4238

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