Vital RecordsFrom the1875 NYS CensusTown of ButlerWayne County, NYInfo kindly provided by the Wayne County Office of the County Historian and digitally formatted by co-coordinator Allyn Hess Perry. Miscellaneous Statistics: First Election District, Butler, for the year ending June 1, 1875 Baptist; value of church and lot 1000; seats 200; 150 usual number in attendance; number of communicants or regular members 143; salary of clergy besides rea estate 600. Advent; value of church and lot 500; value of other real estate 100; seats 300; usual number in attendance 100; number of communicants or regular members 30. Church of Christ; Disciples denomination; value of church and lot 4500; seats 400; 250 usual number in attendance; number of communicants or regular members 300; salary of clergy besides use of real estate 850. Methodist E. Church: Methodist denomination; value of church and lot 4000; value of other real estate 600; seats 300; 200 usual number in attendance; 130 number of communicants or regular members; salary of clergy besides use of real estate 600 Inns, hotels and taverns - 1 hotel; retail stores and groceries - 3 Remarks on the harvest of 1874: Cabbage destroyed by worm. All other crops an average. Domestic animals in cities and villages (domestic animals kept by those who occupy no farming lands): 14 horses; ten cows Wages, average pay exclusive of board: men working at common hand labor in building, etc. $1.50 by the day; farm hands hired by the season or year $22.00 by the month; farm hands hired in haying and harvest $2.00 by the day; carpenters and joiners $2.75 by the day; masons, stone and bricklayers $3.00 by the day; shoemakers (journeymen) $12.00 by the week; dressmakers 75 cents by the day General remarks: A portion of South Butler lies in Savannah. The portion in the First Election District contains two hundred and sixty six inhabitants. Second Election District, Butler, for the year ending June 1, 1875 Inns, hotels and taverns - 1; retail stores and groceries - 1 Remarks on the harvest of 1874: Wheat one fourth more than usual; oats one third short by smut Domestic animals in cities and villages (number of domestic animals kept by those who occupy no farming lands): 75 horses; 40 cows Remarks on the mortality of the year ending June 1, 1875: Their has not been any epidemic or known cause to very the number of deaths. Wages. Estimated average pay of hired laborers and mechanics, exclusive of board: farm hands hired by the season of year, $1 by the day, $20 by the month; farm hands hired in having harvest $2 by the day; women hired for common household work $2 by the week: usually boarded where employed; carpenters and joiners $2 by the day; masons, stone and bricklayers $2.50 by the day. MARRIAGES: Town of Butler: during the year ending June 1, 1875 Ensign ADAMS, age 26, widow and Mary LOCKWOOD, age 23, single John ANDREWS, age 28, single and Esther CAYWOOD, age 21, single Leon D. BARBER, age 21, single and Ella PHLEPS, age 19, single Francis M. CAYWOOD, age 20, single and Adalade KING, age 26, single John COOLICAN, age 27, single and Margarett FLINN, age 17, single Loran O. GOULD, age 23, single and Sharlotta WELCH, age 16 Ervin CUTTERBACK, age 21, single and Julia CONNER, age 20, single Second Election District, Butler, during year ending June 1, 1875 Seward LOVELESS, age 19, single and Nancy HOLLFOLLTER, age 20, single Charles H. BENJAMIN, age 35, widowed and Sarah PROCTOR, age 19, single Samuel GODKIN, age 23, single and Luella DITTON, age 14, single Harlow LOVELESS, age 26, single and Anne COUCH, age 18, single Chester PHILIPS, age 22, single and Sarah WARD, age 26, single Albert VanVLECK, age 28, single and Eva DUDLEY, age 20, single John L. COLE, age 22, single and Anna MURRY, age 20, single Charles WARNER, age 23, single and Jane BENCRAFT, age 16, single Henry LATHAN, age 45, single and Elvira GRUNDY, age 31, widow Hosea BENNEDICT, age 21, single and Emma WILLIAMS, age 23, single Franklin COOK, age 29, single and Grace E. WARREN, age 23, single DEATHS: Town of Butler: during the year ending June 1, 1875 Ambrose LOCKWOOD, Jun., age 27, male, single, Dec. 18, b. Wayne, farmer, Bright's disease of the kidneys Martha E. SCOTT, age 38, female, married, Dec. 11, b. Otsego, consumption Joel BISHOP, age 75, male, married, March 24, b. Montgomery, farmer, congestion on the lungs John PHILLIPS, age 58, male, married, Oct. 4, b. Colomba, farmer, typhoid fever Achsah V. GRAVES, age 70, female, married, April 22, b. Cayuga, consumption Second Election District, Butler, during year ending June 1, 1875 Phebe L. SCOTT, age 64, female, married, March 11, born New York, housekeeper, heart disease (hemorrage from lining) William OLMSTEAD, age 84, male, married, May 5, born Conn., shoemaker, rheumatism and neuralgia Benhamin GRANDY, age 82, married, September 10, don't no where born, infirmities of age William P. BECK, age 58, married, April 1, b. England, artist, softning of the brain Albert VANALSTINE, age 21, married, Feb. 13, b. N.Y., comm. labor, conjection of lungs These records were taken as part of the NY State 1875 state census and cover the calendar year from June 2, 1874 to
June 1, 1875. Otherwise there are no such government records for the other 1870s years ex. for the US 1880 Mortality Schedule.
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