1940 United States Federal Census

Validator (claude-sonnet-5-5, 2026-10-28): supports, confidence 4/4, tier record.
The image shows the Wood household at lines 62–68 on sheet 1B for Two Rivers, Manitowoc, Wisconsin. Norman Wood is listed as Head, married, age 50, and works as a salesman in the sales department of a steel and wood furniture firm. This matches the residence claim for 1940, including place, relation and marital status. The record cannot confirm the middle name or exact birth date.
Matches: Line 62: Norman Wood, Head, male, white, age 50, married, born New Jersey, same house in 1935. Age 50 gives a birth year of about 1889–90, which fits 1889.; Place: Two Rivers, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, Ward 3, as stated at the top of the sheet. Sheet 1B and ED 36-46 match the citation.; Relation to head: Head. Marital status: M (married), with wife Mae at line 63.; Occupation reads as Salesman, Sales Depart. (the claim's 'Sales Depars'), industry steel & wood furniture.; The household has children Franklin, Virginia, Marjorie, Katherine and Norman Jr. The supplementary line shows Norman's birthplace as New Jersey and his mother's as Illinois.
Limits: The census gives an age, not a birth date. It cannot confirm the middle name Bentley or the death year 1950.; Identifying this Norman Wood with the specific person born in 1889 depends on external information, since the record names no middle name.; The occupation text is handwritten and partly hard to read.