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Note: race- negro, a 9 yr old boy adopted by the Conklins. He arrived from the orphanage at same time as Harold (who was still a baby) The Children's Home in Chicago IL brought him to Barry Co., MI with all the other children and babies, expecting that the black family in the neighborhood would adopt him, but they had wanted a baby boy, not an older child. John is included in photos and 1900 census. I don't know where he went after he left home, but vaguely think I was told that he had gone to Battle Creek.
Collection: United States Census, 1900
Name: John W Smith
Residence: Johnstown township, Barry, Michigan
Birth Date: Mar 1891
Birthplace: Illinois
Relationship to Head-of-Household: Adopted Son
Adoptive Father Name: Nehemiah Conklin
Father Birthplace: New York
Adoptive Mother Name: Jemima A Conklin
Mother Birthplace: New York
Race or Color (expanded): Black
Head-of-household Name: Nehemiah Conklin
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Single
Enumeration District: 0044
Sheet Number and Letter: 4A
Household ID: 89
Reference Number: 30
GSU Film Number: 1240700
Image Number: 00671
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