The 1850 Logan County, Virginia Census

Enumerated by James G. Perry, Jul-Oct 1850

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Tables

Table 1.1 - Household Size X Age of the Head of Household.
Table 3.1 - Middle Initials X Age Group.
Table 4.1 - Population counts of Logan County in 1850 and 1990.
Table 6.1 - Age structure of the slave population contrasted with Whites.
Table 11.1 - Children of ages 4 through 20 attending school.
Table 12.1. Illiteracy among Males and Females over 20.

Table 1.1.

House Size	Age of Head of Household
House Size	10-19	20-29	30-39	40-49	50-59	60-69	70-79	80+	Total
1	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	3
2	1	23	2	3	1	5	0	0	35
3	3	40	10	1	1	2	1	0	58
4	3	41	18	4	14	7	1	1	90
5	0	17	28	5	9	6	2	1	68
6	0	15	27	7	7	8	1	0	65
7	0	6	21	17	7	2	1	0	54
8	0	4	33	12	7	4	1	1	62
9	0	0	18	15	7	3	2	0	45
10	0	0	8	19	3	3	0	0	33
11	0	0	8	8	7	0	0	0	23
12	0	0	4	5	3	1	0	0	13
13	0	0	0	3	2	0	0	0	5
14	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	4
15	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	3
16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
17	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1
Total	7	148	177	106	68	42	10	3	561

Table 1.1 - Household Size X Age of the Head of Household.

Excludes Dwelling 568, Lewis G. Woods, on page 159, a family of 4 for whom there are no ages listed. Dwelling 289 is entered as a single household of 11 members, even though it was probably two households erroneously given the same number (Refer to the discussion under Dwelling).

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Table 3.1.

Age Group	With Initials				Without Initials				Total
Age Group	Males	Percent	Females	Percent	Males	Percent	Females	Percent	Number	Percent
<10	247	34.45%	166	26.43%	470	65.55%	462	73.57%	1345	30.71%
10 - 19	131	28.11%	74	18.93%	335	71.89%	317	81.07%	857	23.92%
20 - 29	54	20.69%	24	8.70%	207	79.31%	252	91.30%	537	14.53%
30 - 39	27	14.44%	7	4.09%	160	85.56%	164	95.91%	358	9.50%
40 - 49	10	9.35%	3	3.00%	97	90.65%	97	97.00%	207	6.28%
50 - 59	10	15.38%	3	6.12%	55	84.62%	46	93.88%	114	11.4%
60 -69	2	4.76%	1	2.94%	40	95.24%	33	97.06%	76	3.95%
70 +	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	20	100.00%	8	100.00%	28	0.00%
Totals	481	25.79%	278	16.73%	1384	74.21%	1379	83.27%	3522	21.55%

Table 3.1 - Middle Initials X Age Group.

Calculated for the 3522 persons for whom there are age and gender data.

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Table 4.1.

Age Group	Logan 1850		Logan-Mingo 1990
Age Group	Count	Percent	Count	Percent
Under 10	1371	37.93%	10454	13.59%
10 - 19	881	24.37%	14705	19.11%
20 - 29	561	15.52%	10132	13.17%
30 - 39	366	10.12%	12765	16.59%
40 - 49	214	5.92%	9483	12.33%
50 - 59	115	3.18%	6901	8.97%
60 - 69	78	2.16%	6832	8.88%
70 - 79	15	0.41%	3925	5.10%
80 and older	14	0.39%	1743	2.27%
TOTAL	3615	100.00%	76940	100.00%

Table 4.1 - Population counts of Logan County in 1850 and 1990.

This comparison does not consider the proportion of the population living in the northernmost section of Logan 1850 that was lost to Lincoln County in 1867.

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Table 6.1.

Age Group	Black		Mulatto		Slave		White
Age Group	Number	Percent	Number	Percent	Number	Percent	Number	Percent
0 to 9	14	20.6%	8	42.1%	22	25.3%	1371	37.9%
10 to 19	16	23.5%	6	31.6%	22	25.3%	881	24.4%
20 to 29	21	30.9%	3	15.8%	24	27.6%	561	15.5%
30 to 39	6	8.8%	2	10.5%	8	9.2%	366	10.1%
40 to 49	7	10.3%	0	0.0%	7	8.0%	214	5.9%
50 to 59	1	1.5%	0	0.0%	1	1.1%	115	3.2%
60 to 69	2	2.9%	0	0.0%	2	2.3%	78	2.2%
70 to 79	0	0.0%	0	0.0%	0	0.0%	15	0.4%
80 +	1	1.5%	0	0.0%	1	1.1%	14	0.4%
Total	68	100.0%	19	100.0%	87	100.0%	3615	100.0%

Table 6.1 - Age structure of the slave population contrasted with Whites.

A few individuals in Schedule I had mistakes in Column 6: Color. The last two entries on page 137A, Martin F. Elkin, and his wife, Sarah A. were in error: He had no ditto entry under the column for Color, and she was given an "F" in that column in an apparent confounding of Sex for Color. The last enty on page 137B, Anthony White, had no ditto entry under the column for Color. The next to last entry on page 151B, Sally Evans, omitted the ditto entry in the Color Column. Stephen Messer on page 152 had no ditto entry under the column for Color. All these errors are rendered White for the analysis here.

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Table 11.1.

Age	Girls			Boys			Children
Age	Total	School	Percent	Total	School	Percent	Total	School	Percent
4	72	2	2.70%	70	0	0.00%	142	2	1.41%
5	56	1	1.75%	82	3	3.53%	138	4	2.90%
6	71	4	5.33%	52	5	8.77%	123	9	7.32%
7	48	7	12.73%	61	5	7.58%	109	12	11.01%
8	45	12	21.05%	55	11	16.67%	100	23	23.00%
9	47	6	11.32%	46	11	19.30%	93	17	18.28%
10	47	4	7.84%	57	16	21.92%	104	20	19.23%
11	37	9	19.57%	46	9	16.36%	83	18	21.69%
12	43	5	10.42%	39	9	18.75%	82	14	17.07%
13	33	8	19.51%	39	11	22.00%	72	19	26.39%
14	41	9	18.00%	37	13	26.00%	78	22	28.21%
15	23	5	17.86%	32	12	27.27%	55	17	30.91%
16	29	5	14.71%	39	6	13.33%	68	11	16.18%
17	16	2	11.11%	34	6	15.00%	50	8	16.00%
18	46	1	2.13%	29	1	3.33%	75	2	2.67%
19	27	1	3.57%	29	2	6.45%	56	3	5.36%
20	31	1	3.13%	32	1	3.03%	63	2	3.17%
Total	712	82	10.33%	779	121	15.53%	1491	203	13.62%

Table 11.1 - Children of ages 4 through 20 attending school.

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Table 12.1.

Age Group	Female			Male			All Adults
Age Group	Number	Illiterate	Percent	Number	Illiterate	Percent	Number	Illiterate	Percent
20 to 29	283	160	56.54%	278	94	33.81%	561	254	45.28%
30 to 39	176	120	68.18%	190	85	44.74%	366	205	56.01%
40 to 49	104	72	69.23%	110	45	40.91%	214	117	54.67%
50 to 59	50	33	66.00%	65	26	40.00%	115	59	51.30%
60 to 69	35	23	65.71%	43	16	37.21%	78	39	50.00%
70 +	9	5	55.56%	20	13	65.00%	29	18	62.07%
Total	657	413	62.86%	706	279	39.52%	1363	692	50.77%

Table 12.1. Illiteracy among Males and Females over 20.

Percent is the rate within that age class.

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