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Name Wm Echternoch [Wm Carpenter] [Wm Echternach] [] []
Age 44
Estimated Birth Year abt 1896 [abt 1896]
Gender Male
Race White
Birthplace Pennsylvania
Marital Status Married
Relation to Head of House Son-in-law
Home in 1940 West Earl, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Map of Home in 1940
Farm No
Inferred Residence in 1935 Rural, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Residence in 1935 Rural, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Resident on farm in 1935 No
Sheet Number 1B
Father's Birthplace Pennsylvania
Mother's Birthplace Pennsylvania
Occupation Hosiery
Attended School or College No
Highest Grade Completed Elementary school, 7th grade
Hours Worked Week Prior to Census 42
Class of Worker Wage or salary worker in private work
Weeks Worked in 1939 48
Income 516
Income Other Sources No
Native Language English
Veteran No
Veteran Father Dead No
Military service No
Social Security Number Yes
Usual Occupation Hosiery
Usual Industry Hosiery Mill
Usual Class of Worker Wage or salary worker in private work
Neighbors
Household Members (Name) Age Relationship
A G Carpenter 87 Head
Wm Echternoch 44 Son-in-law
Alina Echternoch 40 Daughter
Harold C Shank 14 Grandson
Lorraine C Echternoch 4 Granddaughter

Source Citation

Year: 1940; Census Place: West Earl, Lancaster, Pennsylvania; Roll: m-t0627-03535; Page: 1B; Enumeration District: 36-158

Source Information

Ancestry.com. 1940 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.

Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1940. T627, 4,643 rolls.

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