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1880 Census, 2nd enumeration

WAGNER, Johann

St. Louis [St. Louis] Missouri

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Source:   Roll 726; Family History Film 1254726, page 184B;
Enumeration District 26, image 0370;
ancestry.com image 32 of 42 (in 2011);
Enumeration date:  9 Nov 1880.

Sometime between mid-June and early November 1880, the Wagners moved to St. Louis from Sarcoxie Township [Jefferson County] Kansas.  Thus, they got counted in the June census of Kansas, as well as in the November census of St. Louis.

They moved into a rooming house on  South 10th Street  in downtown St. Louis.  Because their building was the 29th dwelling visited by the census-taker, it was likely near the railroad tracks shown on the map below — clearly, not a prime residential area. 		"Dwelling 29" also housed a number of other families, so it probably qualified as what we would today term a "working-class tenement."  Indeed, a total of 19 people are listed as living there, including another Russian farming family and a barkeeper — and the "lodging housekeeper" was a widow of German origin.  None of those 1880s structures remain today.

And note that on this map the Gateway Arch on the banks of the Mississippi is placed in red, just to give an idea of where things are / were.
1/2 mile =         |        |        |        |        
St. Louis map excerpt, 1880, by S. Augustus Mitchell (Philadelphia),
now in the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection,
from p. 73 in Mitchell's New General Atlas.
Five Wagners were in the household:

John (Johann) Wagner, age 34 (= born c. 1846), a farmer born in Russia, both parents born in Russia, with:

wife Mary (Anna Mary) Wagner, age 30 (= born c. 1850), born in Russia, both parents born in Russia, "housekeeping," and three sons:

Philip Wagner, age 11 (= born c. 1869), born in Russia, both parents born in Russia;

George Wagner, age 5 (= born c. 1875; actually on 24 Jun 1875), born in Russia, both parents born in Russia;

John Wagner (John, Jr.), age 2 (= born c. 1878), born in Russia (but this is incorrect; he was born in Kansas, per the 1880 Sarcoxie census form), both parents born in Russia.

 

 



       Other, unrelated lodgers in "Dwelling 29" appear on the next census page, as well.