United States Census, 1930 for Esther A Vanderlaan

Name: Esther A Vanderlaan
Event: Census
Event Date: 1930
Event Place: Hudsonville, Ottawa, Michigan
Gender: Female
Age: 15
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Birthplace: Michigan
Estimated Birth Year: 1915
Immigration Year:
Relationship to Head of Household: Daughter
Father's Birthplace: Netherlands
Mother's Birthplace: Netherlands
Enumeration District Number: 0006
Family Number: 133
Sheet Number and Letter: 6A
Line Number: 22
NARA Publication: T626, roll 1023
Film Number: 2340758
Digital Folder Number: 4609263
Image Number: 00670
Household Gender Age
Parent Labertus Vanderlaan M 53
Parent Nettie Vanderlaan F 49
James H Vanderlaan M 17
Esther A Vanderlaan F 15
Boyd P Vanderlaan M 11
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Doug VanderLaan, the compiler, asked his mother Marion about why his aunts Martha and Esther moved away from Michigan, even though all their siblings stayed. Here's her response:
Aunt Peg (Martha)went to to Chicago to get a better job, and probably to get away from home.
The story Aunt Peg told us was that a Hudsonville boy was sweet on Esther
and she decided she didn't want her beautiful sister marrying some hick onion farmer
so she took Esther to Chicago and put her through secretarial school. Funnily enough
the hick farmer became a millionaire... So it looks like Esther was destined for money.