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(Continued) Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi 1886 Census

1st Ward - Schedule C - Churches, Schools, etc.; Schedule D - Manufactures, Etc.; Individual Recapitulation

Compiled by Robert "Bob" Shumway



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Churches

No. 236 Free Will Baptist (Col)

No. 436 Wesley Chapel Methodist

No. 550 Mount Zion Free Will Baptist (Col)

Schools

No. 569 Reed's, Private, No. Pupils 15

Hospital

No. 468 Number of patients last year 144

SCHEDULE D - Manufactures, Etc.
 

Name of Company, Corporaton
NEIHYSEL
Name of Business, Manufacture in 

Products

CANDY FACTORY
Amount of Capital invested in the Business
3,000
Greatest Number of hands employed at any one time during year
11
Average Number of Hands Employed
Male above 16
Female above 15
Children & Youth
10
1
-
 
Valu of Products
15,000
Name of Company, Corporation
NATCHEZ COTTON 
MILLS
Name of Business, Manufacture in Products
COTTON GOODS 
AND BATTING
Amount of Capital Invested in the Business
225,000
Greatest Number of hands employed at any one time during year
220
Average Number of hands employed
Male above 16
Female above 16
Children & Youths
57
110
42
 
Value of products
219,150.57
Name of Company, Corporation
ROSALIE MILS &C 
of NATCHEZ
Name of Business, Manufacture

in Products

BROWN COTTON 
& BATTING
Amount of Capital invested in the Business
75,000
Greatest Number of hands employed at any one time during year
185
Average Number of hands Employed
Male above 16
Female above 15
Children & Youths
65
54
46
 
Value of products
100,000.00
Name of Company, Corporation
BLUFF CITY FOUNDRY
Name of Business, Manufacture in Products
IRON FOUNDRY AND MACHINE SHOP
Amount of Capital invested in the Business
4,000
Greatest Number of hands employed at any one time during year
10
Average Number of hands Employed
Male above 16
Female above 15 Children & Youth
8
0
2
 
Value of Products
5,000
Name of Company, Corporation
NATCHEZ GAS LIGHT CO.
Name of Business, Manufacture in Products
GAS
Amount of Capital invested in the Business
4,000
Greatest Number of hands employed at any one time during year
5
Average Number of hands Employed
Male above 16 Female above 15 Children & Youths
5
0
-
 
Value of products
14,000
Name of Company, Corporation
E. L. CHAMBERLAIN
Name of Business, Manufacture in Products
LUMBER AND SHINGLES
Amount of Capital invested in the Business
2,000
Greatest Number of hands employed at any one time during year
8
Average Number of hands Employed
Male above 16
Female above 15
Children & Youths
6
1
1
 
Value of Products
3,000
Name of Company, Corporation
GEO. M. BROWN
Name of Business, Manufacture in Products
BRICKS
Amount of Capital invested in the Business
1,500
Greatest Number of hands employed at any one time during year
22
Average Number of hands Employed
Male above 16
Female above 15
Children & Youths
14
0
6
 
Value of products
3,500
Name of Company, Corporation
LEARNED SAW-MILL
Name of Business, Manfacture in Products
LUMBER
Amount of Capital invested in the Business
17,000
Greatest Number of hands employed at any one time during year
56
Average Number of hands Employed
Males above 16
Females above 15
Children & Youths
42
0
7
 
Value of Products
23,000
Name of Company, Corporation
CARPENTER-DICKS CO.
Name of Business, Manufacture in Products
COTTON SEED OIL & CAKE
Amount of Capital invested in the Business
40,000
Greatest Number of hands employed at any one time during year
70
Average Number of hands Employed
Male above 16
Female above 15
Children & Youths
55
0
2
 
Value of Products -
Name of Company, Corporation
ADAMS MANUFACTURING COMPANY
Name of Business, Manufacture in Products
COTTON SEED OIL & CAKE
Amount of Capital invested in the Business
1000,000 [sic]
Greatest Number of hands employed at any one time during year.
80
Average Number of hands Employed
Male above 16 Female above 15 Children & Youths
65
0
1
 
Value of products -

FOR THE FIRST WARD
RECAPITULATION OF THE CENSUS TAKEN DURING AUGUST 1886.
--SCHEDULE A--
Total Number of inhabitants 2299

Number of whites, male, over 21 years of age292

Number of whites, male under 21 years of age344

Number of whites, females, over 21 years of age351

Number of whites, females, under 21 years of age350

Number of colored males over 21 years of age161

Number of colored males under 21 years of age265

Number of colored females, over 21 years of age293

Number of colored females under 21 years of age243

Number native born2210

" foreigners89

" ministers4

" lawyers3

" physicians3

" merchants32

" mechanics57

" butchers1

" brokers5

" teachers15

" barbers3

" clerks43

" milliners and dress makers25

" farmers or planters23

" servants and laborers768

" miscellaneous 1,317

--SCHEDULE B--

Total number of buildings 569

Number frame 429

" brick 140

" stone 0

" Owners 264

" renters 385

" dwellings 329

" stores 23

" stores and dwellings 30

" warehouses 26

" factories 11

--SCHEDULE C--

Number Churches 3

" schools 1

" pupils 15

" orphan asylums 0

" inmates

" hospitals 1

" patients 144 (last year, this year to Aug " 134)

" miscellaneous 145

--SCHEDULE D--

Number manufactories 11

Amount of capital employed $514,500.00

Greatest number of hands employed 688

Average number of hands, male, above 16 342

Average number of hands, female, above 16 166

Average number of children 108

Value of products

I certify the foregoing recapitulition is true and correct as taken from the census book for the First Ward.

Ernest Elliott Brown

Enmunerator

Natchez, Sept. First, 1886 


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