1910 Census Anna Marie Brueggemann Huesmann

Anna Marie was the first child born in Ohio. of Clamor and his second wife.  She was born about 11 months after their arrival.  I can imagine their excitement of the birth of their first American child.

She was living in St Louis at the time of the 1910 Census.  She was 50 years old at the time (she died just five years later).  Her husband, August Huesmann was 56.  Other members of the household:

Louise E. Age 20, son  (Really this is Louis Johann Adolf)

Ernst F.  Age 20, son  (Full name Ernst Heinrich Friedrich)

Elsa Age 14, daughter (Full name Elsie Emilie Louise)

Katherine Huesmann, Age 54 -Sister of August

The rest of their four children had left home by 1910.

I have always wondered how August and Anna met.  This Census lists his birth place as Missouri and his sister's birth place as Ohio.  I wonder if his family went back and forth between Missouri and Ohio.  

August was listed as a "Transferer" for a Lithography Company.  The twins were clerks, one in Real Estate and the other is unreadable.  Their home was owned outright with no mortgage, at 3416 Ohio Ave.  The house is no longer standing as it is in the middle of  a large medical complex.  One thing I did notice is that the house may have been next door (or a very close neighbor) of Holy Cross Lutheran Church.  I imagine this was their home church.  The Church was built in 1858 and was next door to Concordia Seminary. 

They lived in a very German neighborhood, as all of surnames on the Census are Germanic.  Neighbors included a Seminary professor, a detective at Detective Agency, a Brewer, and a millright for a Car Company. 

1910 Census: Louis Brueggeman

Louis was living with his wife and family in Cleveland.  His father, Clamor, had died in 1909.  I have been told that this was Clamor's house.  He lived with Louis prior to his death.  


Louis was 48 and his wife, Wilhelmina (known as Minnie) was 44.
Children:   Meta (19), Rudolph (17), Edward (15), Cornelia (8) and William (5)

Louis was listed as being a Grocer with his own store.  Their daughter, Meta, was a Stenographer for a Carbon Company and their son, Rudolf, was listed as an Surveyor's Apprentice, a skill that was to be greatly valued when he served in World War I.   Meta and the three youngest children attended school after Sept 1, 1909.

This is a photo taken in 1910 in a Cleveland grocery store.
It is not Louis' store, but it gives a glimpse what his store may have looked like at the time. 

They were living at 2034 West 93rd Street. Here is current info on the house.  The house was listed on the Census as being owned mortgage free. It was built in 1896 and today has five bedrooms.  According to Google Maps, this is the house today.  Kind of cute.

The neighborhood was not a German enclave.  Most of the residents were born of Native born citizens and those that weren't, most were English.  There occupations ranged from an Elevator Man at a hotel, to a mailman, to foremen, to a publisher.  Most owned their homes, many without a mortgage.

General Info about the 1910 Census

I found on Google books, the final report of Thirteenth Census of the United States.  It is rather long but I want to point out some interesting info.


The 70,000 enumerators were mostly paid on a piece rate of 2 to 4 cents per name.  The average amount received in city areas was $4 per day or $50 total for the period of the census.


The census results was recorded via punch cards.  Because of the complexity of the data, each card needed to run through the machines more than once, the reports state it was the equivalent of of processing 700 million cards.


The total population of the United States (excluding Phillipine Islands) was 93,402,151.
This represents a 21% increase over the 1900 census.


Ohio grew 14.7% 1900 to 1910.


Ohio was the 4th most populous state with a population of 14.8 million. Florida ranked 33rd and Tennessee ranked 17th.


The center of population was in Bloomington, IN having moved westward 20 miles from the 1900 census.


The percentage of residents in Urban areas increased from 40.5% to 46.3%.


Changes in sizes of Ohio Cities:
Akron  42,700 to 69,000
Cleveland 325,900 to 363,590
Zanesville 23,500 to 28,026


Pensacola, FL  17,700 to 22,900


Native Born (both parents born in US)  60.5%  {Sema}
Native (with both parents foreign born) 15.8%  {EAB}
Native Mixed (with one parent foreign born)  7.3%
with the rest foreign born                    14.7%


One important section was tracking the migration of population from their birth state to another state.


Another large section of the Abstract involves the country of origins of foreign born residents.


Only 62.3% of children age 6-20 attended school.  It is a little misleading using to age 20.
age 6-9  73%
10-14  88%
15-17   51%
18-20  15%


Compulsory school attendance laws existed in all but 7 states and most states didn't require it before 7 and after 14.

1910 Census Johann Martin Brueggeman

To continue our review of the 1910 Census, I looked at the youngest Brueggemann sibling,  Martin.  He was 40 at the time of the census and they were living in Memphis at 204 Washington Street.  This is the address of Trinity Lutheran Church.  I wonder if the parsonage was on the property.
His children were all still at home, Victor (14), Otis (12) and Arno (7).


It was a working class neighborhood as all the residents on this census form were renters.  It wasn't a German neighborhood.  The residents had all kinds of occupations:  Hair dresser, book keeper, traveling salesman, optician, teacher, doctor's assistant.  Many of the women worked outside the home.