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From The Heritage Collection Biography and History from Unigraphic -
 The Household Guide and Instructor with Biographies
History of Guernsey County, Ohio
with Illustrations
VOLUME II
Cleveland: T. F. Williams.
1882

CHAPTER IX.
POPULATION, PROPERTY, AND PRODUCTS.

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     In 1810 Guernsey county had 3,051 people within its borders; but after the War of 1812 many of the soldiers settled there on the military lands, and in 1820 the county contained 9,292 souls; in 1830, 18,036; in 1840, 27,748; in 1850, 30,438.  In 1851 four townships were taken from Guernsey and have since formed a part of Noble county, so that in 1860 the number of inhabitants was only 24,475.  In 1870 there were 23,838 people, and in 1880 there were 13,287 males and 13,910 females in the county, a total of 27,197.  The towns containing upwards of 1,000 inhabitants in 1880 were:  Cambridge, the county seat, and Cambridge township, 4,665; Elizabethtown and Wills township, 1,855; Quaker City, Salineville and Millwood township, 1,984.
     The death from March 31, 1880, to same date of 1881, were 102 males and 84 females, of whom 5 males and 8 females were colored people.  Births in the same time, white males 287; females, 249; and 7 colored persons.
     The oldest man who ever lived in Guernsey county was Benjamin Berry, who died here in 1877.  In that year, the elderly people who remembered him in their childhood as a middle aged man during the War of 1812, made enquiry as to his age and ascertained that he was one hundred and eleven years old.  This news of course found incredulous hearers, some of whom examined the company roll of the company in which he served during the War of 1812, and his birth was given there as having occurred in 1765.  After the War of 1812 the company

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rolls of our troops were filed among the Government archives at Washington, and thus hi s age was satisfactorily proved.  Mr. Berry also served in the Indian wars prior to the War of 1812.

PROPERTY AND PRODUCTS.

     Guernsey county contains 287,344 acres, the assessed valuation of which is $6,814,624, an average value per acre of $23.72.
     The valuation of real estate in towns and villages is $953.663.
     The value of chattel property in the county is $2,949,288.
     The products of the county from May, 1880, to May, 1881, according to the Ohio State Agricultural Reports, were as follows:

	ACRES	BUSHELS
Wheat	22,833	300,107
Rye	240	2,185
Buckwheat	296	3,030
Barley	16	322
Oats	6,318	130,097
Corn	21,566	847,219
Potatoes	523	33,656
Sweet potatoes	12	432

     In 1880 24,414 tons of hat were harvested, beside 263 bushels of clover-seed; of butter, 610,361 pounds, and cheese 280 pounds were made; sorghum syrup, 30,649 gallons; maple sugar, 111 pounds, and maple syrup, 416 gallons; bees, 1,043 hives, yielding 4,160 pounds of honey; eggs, 293,985 dozen.  Tobacco was raised on 781 acres, yielding 650,792 pounds.  The vineyards of the county covered 421 acres, yielding 28,035 pounds of grapes and 298 gallons of wine.
     The wool clip in 1880 amounted to 833,248 pounds, making Guernsey the third largest sheep growing county in the State.
     The fruit yield:  Apples, 62,407 bushels; peaches, 98 bushels, and pears, 416 bushels.
     The number and value of domestic animals in 1881 was as follows:  Horses, 6,074, value $230,360; cattle, 15,873, value $189,689; mules, 124, value $4,047; sheep, 172-969, value $443,259; hogs, 10,738, value $24,924.
     During the year, 168,480 tons of coal were mined, giving employment to 348 persons; of stoneware, 30,000 gallons were manufactured; of earthenware, $1,800 worth, and glassware, $2,000 worth.
     During the year ending July 12, 1881, 58 new dwellings were erected at a cost of $21,190.

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