Did US Naturalization in 1880s extend to a husband's wife?

Question

I see a lot of US naturalization records for men in the 1880s but don't see them for their wives. Did the naturalization of the husband extend to the wife and children?

Answer 1

Yes. It changed in 1922. FamilySearch has some details.

https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/United_States_Naturalization_and_Citizenship#Before_1906

Comments

This was discussed on g2g a while ago, because at one point if the wife was born an American citizen, and she married a non-citizen, her citizenship status changed to that of the husband.

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Right.

Between 1907 and 1922 she could lose her citizenship if she married an alien.

This question, as I read it, was asking if the husband's naturalization extended to his spouse.

In general, the spouse's naturalization extended to his spouse and children prior to 1922.

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I was searching for records at our courthouse for my grandparents. The people told me that even though there was no naturalization for Grandma that when her father became a citizen she automatically became one. She was not an adult yet.

If she was an adultt and married a US citizen she would become one. If she married and then her husband became a US citizen then she would be one too.

Thank you Susan and Melanie for confirming some or all of this for me.

Answer 2

Just to add. Here is an example. Hilda Ford applied for a passport  in 1919. This was after the death of her husband Alfred B  Ford. She claimed US citizenship as the widow of  Alfred  who became a naturalised US citizen in 1891 .https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99X3-5PBP?i=167&cc=2185145