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1880 United States Census
Jacksonville, Cherokee County, Texas
The following is a list of occupations given for the 1880 U.S. Census for Jacksonville, Texas only.
| Index of Occupations | ||
| Dry Goods Merchants (10) | Hotel Keeper (3) | Dentist (1) |
| Grocers (4) | Druggists (2) | Harness Maker (1) |
| Physicians (4) | Mechanics (2) | Jeweler (1) |
| Carpenters (4) | Railroad Clerks (2) | Livery Stable Keeper (1) |
| Black Smiths (3) | Telegraph Operators (2) | Miller (1) |
| Clergymen (3) | Barber (1) | Shoe Maker (1) |
| School Teachers (3) | Butcher (1) | [Postmaster (1)] |
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| Who Did What? | |
| Dry Goods Merchants | |
| William A. Brown | Store Name: McKinney & Brown In 1882 they, along with E. B. Ragsdale & Sons, built the second/third brick buildings in town. |
| Ben B. Cannon | Store Name: B. B. Cannon |
| James L. Douglas | Store Name: J. L. Douglas & Co. |
| Harris Garfunkle | |
| James M. Gibson | Store Name: J. M. Gibson Location: Corner of Main and Commerce |
| William H. Lovelady | Moved business from Old Jacksonville to New Jacksonville Built the first brick store in new J'ville. |
| William F. Thompson | This might be Thompson & Thompson & Dellas. |
| Edward B. Ragsdale | Store Name: E. B. Ragsdale & Sons In 1882 they, along with McKinney & Brown, built the second/third brick buildings in town. |
| John A. Templeton | Store Name: J. A. Templeton & Co. Location: Commerce St. where Sears was later located |
| Sam P. Torbitt | |
| Grocers | |
| Andrew J. Chessher | Moved business from Old Jacksonville to New Jacksonville |
| Columbus Emanuel | C. Emanuel was postmaster from 1897-1902 |
| John E. Fielder | |
| George Tilley | Moved business from Old Jacksonville to New Jacksonville An 1887 photo from the Jacksonville centennial book ("Then & Now" section) shows "Tilley & ..." - appears to be a hardware store |
| Physicians | |
| Ben F. Brittain | |
| John B. Fuller | J. B. Fuller moved his family to Jacksonville around 1863 and in 1872, moved with the town to its present location. |
| Frank A. Fuller | Son of J. B. Fuller, above. Frank Fuller attended Jacksonville Collegiate Institute and later Missouri Medical College in St. Louis. After graduating in 1878, he returned to Jacksonville where he entered practice with his father (J. B. Fuller) and continued for 59 years. Below is an excerpt from the biography
of Minnie Pearl Childs, born in Jacksonville in 1884: |
| Carpenters | |
| Erastus Heermans | Came to Texas in early 1870s, settled in Larissa, came to J'ville a few years later and lived on S. Bolton St., died in 1882 |
| Otto Presley | |
| James A. Spruill | James and Sam Spruill were brothers. |
| Sam T. Spruill | carriage and wagon maker |
| Black Smiths | |
| Milard E. Stevens | Married Esaw Rankin's sister, Mary. Rankins was living with Stevens in 1880. |
| Esaw Rankins | Brother-in-law of Milard Stevens |
| Anderson Summers [black] | |
| Clergymen | |
| Bart R. Bolton | Methodist minister. Son of Canada Bolton. His brother Robert was a teacher at this time. From the Jacksonville centennial book: "He served churches in both West and East Texas as pastor. He was appointed presiding elder for the Waco District and the Fort Worth District. After retiring from active ministry, he was financial agent for Southwestern University, a Methodist institution in Georgetown." |
| Albert Little | Methodist minister. From a Little family genealogy website: "After the [Civil] war, he went to Texas and became an itinerant minister in the East Texas Conference of the Methodist church. He apparently had quite a reputation as a preacher." |
| Robert N. Smith | |
| School Teachers | |
| Robert E. Hendry | John J. A. Patton's successor at Jacksonville Collegiate Institute |
| Robert B. Bolton | Son of Canada Bolton |
| Lorane Garrett | |
| Hotel Keepers | |
| William C. Cobb | Cobb House, Moved business from Old Jacksonville to New Jacksonville, located on NE Corner of Main & Rusk, that location based on the block 137 description in History of Cherokee County, but the book later says it was at the corner of Kickapoo and Main. On the 1914 map, I don't even see those two streets intersecting. |
| William M. Andrews | |
| Mary A. Garrett | |
| Druggists | |
| John H. Bolton | "He founded an early Jacksonville drug store.
He would perform minor operations such as removing the finger of a
boy to stop gangrene." - Centennila book Could this have been J. & C. Bolton, listed in the History of Cherokee County as one of the "early firms of New J'ville"? |
| Ira A. Maphis | |
| Mechanics | The word "mechanic" in 1880 appears to have been a term used liberally for any trade involving use of the hands. There is a note to the census takers to try and avoid using this word. |
| Moses D. Morris | Served as Mayor in 1875, later operated a Mill 5.5 miles SW of J'ville on the Pierce's Chapel Road |
| John H. Lane | |
| Railroad Clerks | |
| W. B. Gunell | |
| Charles D. Backus | |
| Telegraph Operators | The telegraph came to Jacksonville in 1880 when a line was run from Jacksonville to Rusk. |
| William B. Hubbard | |
| John F. Morris | Son of Moses D. Morris (above) |
| Barber | |
| Henry Clay [black] | |
| Butcher | |
| John Tully | |
| Dentist | |
| James T. Simpson | |
| Harness Maker | |
| Augustus Miller | |
| Jeweler | |
| Rotshchild | |
| Livery Stable Keeper | |
| James M. Brown | |
| Miller | |
| Sam A. Thompson | |
| Shoe Maker | |
| Garland Johnson | |
| Postmaster | |
| William D. Browder | Census didn't show an occupation for Browder. Information taken from a list of postmasters in the centennial book. |
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Compiled by Greg Smith. If you have any materials you'd like to contribute, please email me.