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Miscellaneous Statistics:
Town of Huron: for the year ending June 1, 1875
Alanson CHURCH, Enumerator
First Presby. of Huron; denomination Presbyterian; $2000 value of church and lot; $1200 value of parsonage; seats 300; 150 usual number in attendance; 105 number of communicants or regular members; $700 salary of clergy besides use of real estate
First Methodist of Huron; denomination Methodist Epis.; $4000 value of church and lot; $400 value of parsonage; seats 225; 150 usual number in attendance; 80 number of communicants or regular members; $500 salary of clergy besides use of real estate
Protestant Methodist; denomination Protestant; $800 value of church and lot; $100 value of parsonage; seats 150; 50 usual number in attendance; 30 number of communicants or regular members; $300 salary of clergy besides use of real estate
No printing done in town.
Inns, hotels and taverns - two; whole stores - none; retail stores - none
Remarks on the harvest of 1874: Wheat 2/3 of a crop on account of winter freezing. Oats a good crop. Barley and buckwheat and potatoes and corn all full crop.
Remarks on the mortality of the year: The health in the district has been good probably never better. Some deaths of course but many from old age and infirmity.
Wages, estimated average pay of hired laborers and mechanics, exclusive of board: men working at common hand labor in building $2.50 by the day; farm hands hired by the season or year $20 by the month; farm hands hired in haying and harvest $30 by the month; women hired for common household work $2.00 by the week; carpenters and joiners (12 in town) $2.50 by the day; masons, stone and bricklayers (4 in town) $3.00 by the day; shoemakers (journeymen) (6 in town) $3.00 by the day; blacksmiths (5) (do their own work); dressmakers (15 or 20) 75 cents by the day; sewing and other woman's hand labor (12) 50 cents by the day
General Remarks: I find in canvassing the district the farmers feeling well from the resources of the last year. Our present spring has been backward but the late rains and warm weather indicate an aboundant harvest. We have one of the finest agricultural and fruit towns in the state as will be seen from this census this year.
Remarks on the fruit trees: There being so few pear trees and peach trees in the district that I have thought proper not to place them in the column but give the amount of each here. There was no pears in town last year. There was quite a crop of peaches. There is in town about 1000 pear trees and the same number of peach trees. Farmers having three or four of each kind. There is three small pear orchards and four or five small peach orchards and everyone has three or four cherry trees and there is a very few plums and quinces. We have many splendid apple orchards numbering many hundred as the schedules will show there were more apples in the town last year than ever before. There are scarcely any bees kept in town some families keep two or three swarms. Very little honey made. Bees do not do as well as they did a few years ago. Most of them that live through the summer die in winter.
MARRIAGES:
Town of Huron: during year ending June 1, 1875
Alanson CHURCH, Enumerator
James MERRILL, age 23, single and Kate C. WHITBECK, age 24, single
Dec. 9 in Huron by Presb. clergyman
Jacob R. WALDRUFF, age 20, single and Nettie E. STANLEY, age 21, single
Dec. 30 in Huron by a Presb. clergyman
John ANDRUS, age 30, single and Esther CAYWOOD, age 21, single
Jan. 7 in Butler by a Disciple Clergyman
John ARNETT, age 62, widowed and Mrs. DEWITT, age 45, widowed
April 22 in Wolcott by an Advent clergyman
Charles COREY, age 24, single and Phebe OSTRANDER, age 18, single
Aug. 18 in Huron by civil magistrate ELLENWOOD
Josiah CALKARD, age 78, widowed and Sarah DERBY, age 66, widow
Oct. 20 in Huron by a Presb. clergyman
Sylvester DUNHAM, age 24, single and Susan HILL, age 17, single
Mar. 10 in Huron
Ira H. COLE, age 27, single and Susan E. CATCHPOLE, age 18, single
Dec. 9 in Huron by a Presb. clergyman
Edwin SEEBERT, age 26, single and Sophronia PLUMER, age 19, single
Feb. in Wolcott by a Presb. clergyman
Michael GAZLEY, age 20, single and Mary ADIN, age 25, single
Mar. 20 in Clyde by a Cath. clergyman
Jacob GURNEE, age 45, single and Cornelia A. TALCOTT, age 26, single
Oct. 28 in Huron by a Presb. clergyman
James ROCKWELL, age 29, single and Emma WATERBURY, age 27, single
Dec. 24 in Huron
Jacob GILLETT, age 21, single and Nettie VILIE, age 19, single
Sept. 8 in Huron by a justice
Charles CRYLER, age 30, single and Siba DAY, age 18, single
May 21 in Huron by a Meth. clergyman
Frank GRINELL, age 19, single and Miranda BARRETT, age 17, single
May 15 in Huron by a Meth. clergyman
Charles STONE, age 22, single and Susan DICKENSON, age 24, single
Jan. 7 in Huron by a Presb. clergyman
DEATHS:
Town of Huron: during year ending June 1, 1875
Alanson CHURCH, Enumerator
William BURTON, age 46, male, white, widowed, Dec. 21 died, b. N.Y., farmer, consumption
Emma HOLYER, age 24, female, white, wife, April 1, b. N.Y., consumption
Ira REYNOLDS, age 69, male, white, married, Jan. 4, b. Columbia County, farmer, disease of the throat
Betsey MEEKER, age 60, female, white, widow, Jan. 6, b. Wayne County, congestion of the lungs
Nora DITTON, age 23, female, white, wife, March 8, b. N.Y., consumption
Elizabeth ABBOTT, age 43, female, white, wife, Sept. 2, b. N.Y., consumption
Uri GILLETT, age 79, male, white, single, July 27, b. N.Y., farmer, old age
Fany BARNES, age 34 female, white, wife, Jan. 14, b. N.Y.
William NORTON (?), age 77, male, white, married, May 29, b. N.Y., farmer, old age
Julia ANDUS, age 77, female, white, widow, Nov. 21, b. N.Y., old age
Hiram MCQUEEN, age 59, male, white, married, Sept. 9, b. N.Y., farmer, fever
Rufus SOURS, age 62, male, white, single, Feb. 10, b. N.Y., farmer, consumption
Ebenezer JONES, age 77, male, white, married, Nov. 14, b. Mass., farmer, disease of kidneys
Samuel RICE, age 50, male, white, married, farmer, dropsy
George GASTIN, age 55, male, white, married, March 24, b. England, farmer, congestion of the lungs
Mary YORK, age 76, female, white, widow, April 1, b. Canada, dropsy
Kesiah POWELL, age 77, female, white, widow, Oct. 26, b. N.Y., reumatism
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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