{"id":15885,"date":"2012-04-12T22:43:40","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T05:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/?p=15885"},"modified":"2012-06-06T14:39:43","modified_gmt":"2012-06-06T21:39:43","slug":"the-joseph-dusavage-family-in-the-1940-united-states-federal-census","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/15885","title":{"rendered":"The Joseph Dusavage Household in the 1940 United States Federal Census"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joseph P .\u00a0Dusavage was enumerated in the 1940 US Federal Census with\u00c2\u00a0his wife Helen T. Priestley and daughter [Nancy?] at 9 Shannon St, Worcester, Worcester Co., Massachusetts, the same house in which their daughter his parents and brother lived .\u00a0 Joseph was the owner of the building.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/CUS-Dusavage-Joseph-1940-Left.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-15886\" title=\"1940 US Federal Census Record for the Joseph Dusavage Family (Left)\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/CUS-Dusavage-Joseph-1940-Left.jpg\" alt=\"1940 US Federal Census Record for the Joseph Dusavage Family (Left)\" width=\"512\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/CUS-Dusavage-Joseph-1940-Left.jpg 1422w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/CUS-Dusavage-Joseph-1940-Left-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/CUS-Dusavage-Joseph-1940-Left-1024x522.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The 1940 US Federal Census Record for the Dusavage Family (Left)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/CUS-Dusavage-Joseph-1940-Right.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-15887\" title=\"1940 US Federal Census Record for the Joseph Dusavage Family (Right)\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/CUS-Dusavage-Joseph-1940-Right.jpg\" alt=\"1940 US Federal Census Record for the Joseph Dusavage Family (Right)\" width=\"541\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/CUS-Dusavage-Joseph-1940-Right.jpg 1504w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/CUS-Dusavage-Joseph-1940-Right-300x144.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/CUS-Dusavage-Joseph-1940-Right-1024x493.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 541px) 100vw, 541px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The 1940 US Federal Census Record for the Dusavage Family (Right)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE: 1940 U.S. Census, Worcester County, Massachusetts, population schedule, Worcester, enumeration district (ED) 23-103, sheet 8B, household 128, Michael Dusavage; digital image, Ancestry.com (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancestry.com\/\">http:\/\/www.ancestry.com<\/a> : accessed 10 April 2012); citing National Archives microfilm publication T627 roll 01715.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the link for a PDF copy of the 1940 US Federal Census Record for the\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/CUS-Dusavage-Joseph-1940.pdf\">Joseph Dusavage Household<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The record states that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The Dusavages lived at 9 Shannon St, Worcester, Worcester Co., Massachusetts, USA on 01 April 1940, they were household 128 in order of visitation, they owned their home which was worth $5200, they lived in the same house on 01 April 1935, and they did not live on a farm<\/li>\n<li>Joseph\u00c2\u00a0Dusavage provided the information for the census, he was head of household, was a white male,\u00a029 years old, married, was not attending school, had completed 4 years of high school, was born in Massachusetts, was working the week of March 24-30, worked\u00c2\u00a060 hours the week of March 24-30 as a [sub?] clerk for the U.S. Post Office, worked in\u00c2\u00a0government work, worked\u00c2\u00a052 weeks in 1939, earned $2190 in wages, and did not earn more than $50 from sources other than wages<\/li>\n<li>Helen\u00c2\u00a0Dusavage,\u00a0the wife of Joseph, was a white female,\u00a029 years old, married, was not attending school, had completed 3 years of high school,\u00a0was born in Massachusetts<\/li>\n<li>[Nancy?]\u00c2\u00a0Dusavage was the daughter of Joseph and Helen, was a white female, her age is illegible [probably younger than 6 years old because the education column is blank], single, was not attending school,\u00a0and was born in Massachusetts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2012 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joseph P .\u00a0Dusavage was enumerated in the 1940 US Federal Census with\u00c2\u00a0his wife Helen T. Priestley and daughter [Nancy?] at 9 Shannon St, Worcester, Worcester Co., Massachusetts, the same house in which their daughter his parents and brother lived .\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/15885\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[33],"tags":[251],"class_list":["post-15885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dusavage","tag-worcester-massachusetts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-48d","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15885"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16189,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15885\/revisions\/16189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}