(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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