November 15, 2020
Pages 3334
Whole Number 144
SPARKS HOUSEHOLDS APPEARING ON THE
1840 CENSUS OF IOWA TERRITORY
Iowa became a state in 1846; from 1838 until 1846 it had been organized as a Territory. When a census of Iowa Territory was taken in 1840, one household headed by a person named Sparks was found. That individual is shown below. For an explanation of the 1840 census, see page 3329 of the present issue of the Quarterly. A record of persons named Sparks (Sparkes and Sparks) found on the 1850 census of Iowa appeared in the Quarterly of December 1984 (Whole No. 128, pp. 2690-94). Earlier, in the June 1964 issue of the Quarterly, we published an incomplete record of Sparkses found on the 1850 census of Iowa - - interested readers, however, should refer to the corrected record published in December, 1984.
| Males | Females | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 5 |
5 10 |
10 15 |
15 20 |
20 30 |
30 40 |
40 50 |
50 60 |
60 70 |
70 80 |
80 90 |
90 100 |
+ 100 |
|| | 0 5 |
5 10 |
10 15 |
15 20 |
20 30 |
30 40 |
40 50 |
50 60 |
60 70 |
70 80 |
80 90 |
90 100 |
+ 100 |
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| Van Buren County | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| John R. Sparks (534) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | || | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |