The 1840 census represents the last of the federal censuses that focus on the heads of households only. Like all of the censuses before it, the 1840 was still under the jurisdiction of the U.S.

State archivists have discovered a document with historic census information on Abraham Lincoln’s associates in a small, central Illinois city, the Illinois secretary of state announced Wednesday.

According to the most recent issue of the Illinois State Archives newsletter, For the Record (winter 2015), the original 27-page handwritten 1840 State Census for Menard County was recently discovered ...

PETERSBURG — The original 1840 Menard County census — the first state census to include the newly created Menard County — has been discovered along with other early papers in a county vault across the ...

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