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. 2008 May;45(2):345–361. doi: 10.1353/dem.0.0009

Table 1.

Characteristics of Selected Counties, New York, 1865

County Total Population (1865) % Urban % Farmers Average Home Value % Illiterate Over Age 20 % Agricultural Land Improved Children Ever Born to Native, Ever-Married Women Aged 45+ Children Ever Born to Native, Ever-Married Women Aged 30–44 Children Aged 0–4 per 1,000 Women Aged 15–49
Allegany 40,285 7.62 62.08 0.42 1.00 54.25 6.1 3.4 451.1
Dutchess 65,192 50.17 27.72 1.52 3.30 78.31 5.4 3.9 420.4
Montgomery 31,447 69.51 32.08 1.11 3.10 83.02 5.9 3.6 438.3
Rensselaer 88,210 72.25 19.95 1.24 3.20 76.20 4.9 3.5 454.3
Steuben 66,192 27.66 50.94 0.55 3.30 55.44 6.3 3.5 483.4
Tompkins 30,696 35.09 42.84 0.74 1.30 74.36 5.2 3.0 355.4
Warren 21,128 36.08 50.08 0.44 3.60 41.62 6.5 4.3 543.8
New York State 3,831,777 62.99 27.92 1.85 a 58.75 a a 454.3

Notes: % urban uses the 1875 New York census definition; % farmers is farmers as a percentage of men aged 15–64; average home value is reported in thousands of dollars; % illiterate (cannot read and write), for native-born males over age 20, is estimated from a seven-county sample; and % agricultural land improved is (total improved agricultural land / total agricultural land) × 100.

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Not available.

Source: New York State censuses, 1865 and 1875.