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(Continued) Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi 1886 Census

2nd Ward - Schedule C - Churches, Schools etc; Schedule D - Manufactures, Etc; Individual Recapitulation

Compiled by Robert "Bob" Shumway



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Churches

Methodist Church, No. 250

Presbyterian Church, No. 40

Methodist Church, No. 340

Baptist Church, No. 385

Baptist Church, No. 50

Schools

Union School, Public, No. Pupils 612

Natchez Collage, Public, No. Pupils 173

Orphan Asylums

No., Three, No. Inmates 166

Hospital

None 


Businesses
 

Name of Company, Corporation
Shaw, J. M.
Name of Business, Manufacture in Products
Foundry & Machine Shop
Amount of Capital invested in the Business
5,000.00
Greatest Number of hands employed at any one time during year
10
Average Number of hands employed
Male above 16
Female above 15
Children & Youths
2
none
none
 
Value of products
5,000.00
Name of Company, Corporation
O'Brien & Co
Name of Business, Manufacture in Products
Brick Manufacture
Amount of Capital invested in the Business
5,000.00
Greatest Number of hands employed at any one time during year
10
Average Number of hands Employed
Male above 16
Female above 15
Children & Youths
4
none
none
 
Value of products 10,000.00
Name of Company, Corporation
Dugan & Co.
Name of Business, Manufacture in Products
Candle Manufacture
Amount of Capital invested in the Business
150.00
Greatest Number of hands employed at any one time during year
1
Average Number of hands Employed
Male above 16
Female above 15
Children & Youths
1
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Value of products
500.00
Name of Company, Corporation
James Junkin
Name of Business. Manfacture in Products
Waggon Manufacture
Amount of Capital invested in the Business
600.00
Greatest Number of hands employed at any one time during year
5
Average Number of hands Employed
Males above 16
Females above 15
Children & Youths
none
none
none
 
Value of products
1,200.00
 
Name of Company, Corporation
Mulvihill, P. J.
Name of Business, Manufacture in Products
Tin Manufacture
Amount of Capital invested in the Business
2,500.00
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
none
none
none
 
Value of products
5,000.00

FOR THE SECOND WARD

RECAPITULATION OF THE CENSUS TAKEN DURING AUGUST 1886.

--SCHEDULE A--

Total Number of inhabitants.............................4258

Number of whites, male, over 21 years of age............313

Number of whites, male under 21 years of age............351

Number of whites, females, over 21 years of age.........370

Number of whites, females, under 21 years of age........410

Number of colored males over 21 years of age............449

Number of colored males under 21 years of age...........718

Number of colored females, over 21 years of age.........848

Number of colored females under 21 years of age.........799

Number native born......................................4106

" foreigners.......................................152

" ministers........................................11

" lawyers..........................................4

" physicians.......................................3

" merchants........................................74

" mechanics........................................164

" butchers.........................................11

" brokers..........................................1

" teachers.........................................19

" barbers..........................................5

" clerks...........................................75

" milliners and dress makers.......................22

" farmers or planters..............................

" servants and laborers............................

" miscellaneous....................................3939

--SCHEDULE B--

Total number of buildings...............................776

Number frame...........................................584

" brick............................................192

" stone............................................

" Owners...........................................300

" renters..........................................370

" dwellings........................................603

" stores...........................................173

" stores and dwellings.............................

" warehouses.......................................8

" factories........................................

--SCHEDULE C--

Number Churches.........................................5

" schools..........................................2

" pupils...........................................785

" orphan asylums...................................3

" inmates..........................................166

" hospitals........................................

" patients.........................................

" miscellaneous....................................

--SCHEDULE D--

Number manufactories....................................5

Amount of capital employed..............................1750

Greatest number of hands employed.......................26

Average number of hands, male, above 16.................7

Average number of hands, female, above 16...............

Average number of children..............................

Value of products.......................................16600

I hereby certify the foregoing recapitulation is true and correct. As taken from the census book for the Second Ward.

John Russell

Enumerator

Natchez, Sept.............1886 


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