Men's Lives
Where women's moves were shaped by their existing commitments to parents and other older relatives, many of the Brown Bros. employees who moved to the suburbs between 1900 and 1910 had married and in some cases had children over the course of the decade. For example, Archibald Ogden, who in 1900 was 30, unmarried, and living with his parents in Union, New Jersey, had by 1910 married and moved to Elizabeth, New Jersey. The data thus reinforce my findings from the IPUMS data about the importance of marriage in shaping men’s identities that was then further reinforced by their ability to move to new suburban homes and become avid consumers.