HISTORY OF CLAY COUNTY                          191



    TOWNSHIPS.              1850.   1860.   1870.   1880.   1890.    1900.
Cass ...................... 466     538     596     551     515      478
Brazil .................... ...     ...     2,772   4,346   6,939    8,971
Carrithers ................ 296     ...     ....    ....    ....     ....

TOWNS.
Bowling Green...........    318     466     ...     ....    467      432
Brazil ..................   84      ...     2,180   3,441   5,905    7,786
Carbon .................    ...     ...     ....    ....    521      951
Clay City ...............   ....    ...     ....    ....    1,004    1,503
Center Point..0.0.0006..    ....    .... •...    0.00   517  600
Cloverland..............    70  ............. 136       0 •• •   . . .......
Knightsville ............   .........   •006 1,071   958    1,148   1,171
Harmony .......... ..•..    0600    ........... 0006     0000   1,020
Newburg . ............... ...........   ....    .000 200     ...........    ...............      00.0
Staunton .............. ••••.   ......... 589    581    549  693
T’oland 0.0....... .................    •..•    ......... 126    •000   ........     ...........
Williamstown ..........j    62  set. 65  0000   6000     0 ........
A shboro    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J •   • 0 .....137    . .. •  • 06 0  0 60



10lncludiug Poland.
“Including the city of Brazil.


    There are no volumes of publications state library back of 1850.
The figures as they appear on the bureau and as they are found in
library do not in all cases agree.
The population of Carrithers township is given as that was the only decennial year of its existence.
Census returns for Sugar Ridge township are not
it was not organized until 1854, nor for
1868.
i86o, as
to 1870, as it was not organized
until
townships
issued

compilation
only
Brazil
from
the
in the
census
in the state
for the

given prior
town ship
year
to
prior
The population of the
follows:
 1st ward,
2,341;
city of
2d ward,
Brazil for
“957;
I9oo, by wards, is
3d ward, 1,769;
given
4th
as
ward,
1,719.
There are no available
age, usually
given back
school
can be
including
element of
known
1909
a period
records
as “the
by
1853.
which the
number
    of persons of
enumeration,” or school population,
that year down to and
of this
of the year
of fifty-seven years, the enumeration
our population is   by the following figures:
shown
From


1853.,
1854.
1855.
1856
1857.

1859.
1860
1861
1862.
1863.
1864.
1865
1866.
................... •e0 600600
...........
0000606000000
000000 06 0 SO 0 000 06 6



•   .............................



@00060006060000660



0   00 ...... 0 000 600 ....... 0606



........    ....... 0 00 000 0000 000



09600000606 0000000



60060000 oo.o08000 u



000060000000000000



........... ........................



•.00000060000 oOOoe



........    000 6000 00 000 000



..................... 00000
3,804
4,189
4,089
4,030
4,030
4,030
4,556
4,852
4,867
5,037
5,091
5,389

5,520
1867.
1868.
1869.
1870.

1872.
1873.
1874.
1875.
1876.
1877.
1878.
1879.
1880
000 .................   600 00 0
30006600 0000       60 0    ....... a
*06 000 6000 6 00 sO            000
606 @06 060 060 ..........  000
000 0.00.0066   630000
00 00 600006006 600 60
O 66609 0 60060 006 ......
00 066 600 0 0  0060000 6
0600 000 000 00 6   6.000
    @06 000 60S •06000000
    0 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ... 6 30 0 0 0 0



00  ...........................
O   0 0 0   0 6 6 0 0 0 80 6 6 0 0 0 0
6   660 00  00036 ................. 0
5,592
5,866
6,265
6,272
6,603
7,043
7,612
8,071
8,235
8,598
8,349
7,595
8,667
8,762
191
    HISTORY OF CLAY COUNTY  ‘9’

1w N ‘P S


B a~d
C~rrltberB
To’~Ns.
Bowling Green .
Pm,iI -

~“y ~ty.

Knight~.iIIo -
Harmony . I

St~u’,ton
Poland

A~bborn
185R I


206


S4



70
I 1870.
5~S[



466
596
~,772



~   so


t’hT1
200

12~
65
    I 1N~IJ. I 1900.
~51 47~

4,~46 6,~S 8,971
•   4~7 432
~,44T   5>lTh   7,7E6
•   5~l  951
    1,004   1.503
t       ~00
        I
-   1,020
     549~   693

~Ifle~udi~g P0Th11d.
HneIadjn~ the dt’ of T4~il.


    There am no volunies of census 1,nblications by townsfiips in the
state library back of iS5o.
    The figures as they appear Ofi he b’,l let1 n s issued from the ccnAI~
bureau and as they are fc~,n$ in the bentid compilation in the state
~brar’- do not in all cases agree.
The pcpulathrn of Carri th ers township is given oniy for the year
as that was the only decennial year or its ex’,tenre.
Census returns ror Sn~ar Ridge tow,ish~p are not given prior to
as it was no ol-gani zed until ‘854, nor for Brazil to’v ash p prior
~   rS;o, as it was not organtzed until i~S.
    The ix~puJation or the city 0* Brazil for r~, by wards, is given as
fellows ‘St ~VaI(I, 2,34’ 2d ward, 1,957 sd ~vanI, 1,769 4111 ard.

    There at~ no available re~o rds by which Ilic ‘nibe r of pen9on of
sch~i age, usually known a~ Ilie en clilieration, or ~i’~x 4 popn latlo’,,
can Fe given back of t],e year 1St. Fro,n that year down to and
ncludhg I a period of fifty—seven y~ ~xs, the o’m’nerat on of this
element C’ our po~,uh’tion is shown by rue, following figtires
IS~3..


Is55.:
Is5&

Ig5~.
I~5g.
iSg9-
Ig&~ -.
‘86’..
SCZ
I&~3
is’4,..
I&i5~.
3s04
4’s9
4 O~O
4 030
4,030
4,5S6
    •   4,852
    •   4.$67
    •   5,037
• SaM
    •   5,3s9
- 5,I~
    1S6>    -.


‘869
r$;o
T$7r
ISP
IS~3


I8<
iS;6
1877,,~..

rS~?S
IS~9
    5>92
    •   6,265
    •   6,42
    •   6,633
        ~,O43
    •   S,o;r
        8,235
    8,349
    ~Ao5
    ~,762