Appearing in large bold letters at the top of each page are:
Township
City (or nearest post office)
Page number.
Appearing in columns on each page are:
DW (Dwelling number--- i.e. the first, second, third, etc. dwelling the census taker visited on his
We did NOT include the following information available on the census on our online summary:
Color, Occupation or
Profession, Value of Real Estate and Value of Personal Estate. We have entered the military service information from the 1885 census online on another page at:
http://www.ksgenweb.org/lincoln/military.htm
Click on the township name to see the full census information we have online. Surnames found in each township are listed below to help you in your search. Often a surname appears more than once in one township.
Use your search/find keys to find names with the knowledge that names were often misspelled and that census takers were not always very literate folks. For example, the surname, Reed, might appear as Reid, Read, Rede, Ried, etc. This is especially true of German and Czech (i.e. Bohemian) names as well as Scandinavian surnames (Anderson vs Andersen or Meyer, Meier, Myer, etc.).
A - B | C - E | F - H | I - L | M - O | P - SH | SI - V | W - Z
CEDRON TOWNSHIP (lacking page 14)
ELKHORN TOWNSHIP (town of LINCOLN CENTER)
ELKHORN TOWNSHIP (areas outside of Lincoln Centre)
GRANT TOWNSHIP
(Note..... Grant Township was later divided into two townships Grant and Hanover.)
HANOVER TOWNSHIP -------part of GRANT TOWNSHIP in 1885
PLEASANT TOWNSHIP
(Note..... Pleasant Township was later divided into two townships Pleasant and Vesper.)
VESPER TOWNSHIP -------part of PLEASANT TOWNSHIP in 1885