SAMUEL POSNER (AGE 33) WITH WIFE JENNIE AND CHILDREN - 1915 CENSUS

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SAMUEL POSNER (AGE 33) WITH WIFE JENNIE AND CHILDREN - 1915 CENSUS - QUEENS

DOCUMENT: posner-samuel-census-1915.jpg (look at the left page, rows 44 to 47)

NOTES:

This 1915 census form shows Samuel (Zalman) Posner—who was Jerome's older brother and Esther's uncle—living in Queens with his wife Jennie and young daughters Esther and Ruth.

Here's a copy of the (modern) transcription copied from ancestry.ca

Name: 	Damuel Posner
Birth Year: 	abt 1882
Birth Place: 	Russia
Age: 	33
Gender: 	Male
Residence Place: 	New York, Queens
Relationship: 	Head
Color or Race: 	White
Number of Years in US: 	12
Assembly District: 	04
House Number: 	SS
Line Number: 	44
Page Number: 	12
Household Members: 	
Name 	Age
Damuel Posner 	33
Jennie Posner 	28
Ester Posner 	4
Rut Posner 	7/12

Here are my notes about this document:
- "Damuel" should be "Samuel" -- it's just a (modern) transcription error.
- The street is "Jamaica Ave." but the column for house number has been left blank for everyone listed on this form.
- Samuel's profession is Newsdealer, and it says "O.A" -- I think this might stand for "own account"? i.e. self-employed.
- Although the census taker recorded 7-month-old "Rut" as a "Son," we know from both a 1998 Rosenthal-Posner family tree and later census records that this baby was actually a daughter named Ruth.
- It says that Samuel has been in the U.S. for 12 years and Jennie for 10 years.