OCCUPATIONS. 



E. 



1800. 



So. Ca., U.S. 



1870. 



So. Ca. U. S. 



1880. 



So. Ca. 



U.S. 



A 2 r i c u 1 1 u r e 



A jzri cultural laborers 



Farmers and planters 



Turi^entine farmers and la- 

 borers 



2. Professional and personal' 



services I 



Clergymen 



Domestic servants I 



Laborers 



Launderer and laundress •• j 



Lawyers | 



Officials and employees of 



Government | 



Teachers \ 



Physicians and Surgeons...!.; 



Trade and Transportation... 



Traders and dealers 



Draymen, hackmen, team- 

 sters, etc 



OflScers and employees of 

 R. R. companies 



Sailors, steamboatmen, pi- 

 lots watermen 



Manufacturing and Mining.. 



Blacksmiths 



Shoemakers 



Brick and stone masons and 

 stone cutters 



Carpenters and joiners 



Coopers 



Cotton and woolen mill op- 

 eratives 



Millers and sawyers 



Tailors, milliners, seam- 

 stresses 



All classes of occupations .. 



I I! 206,654' 5,922,471 



6,812 795,679 j 163,528 2,885,996 

 40,392'2,547,:J39 42,546 2,981,320 



160 



586 



1,103 



5,796 



309 



457 



445 

 1,455 

 1.116 



1.303 



3,720 

 505 

 364 



282 



37,529 



259,908, 



969,301 i 



38,623 



33,193 



31,170' 



118,596 



55,055 



268,978 

 92,207: 

 36,567 



102,087, 



692| 112,207i 



589; 164,108! 



569' 109,913 



1,848,! 251,286 



1761 43,624 



I I 



623i 87,289' 



5261 52,282, 



! 



2,898: 252,953 



81,6318,287,043 



240 



34,383 



553 1 



24.563 



16,780, 



1,555 



1.126 



475 1 

 1,111 



789 



8,470 

 2,798. 



661 1 



1,211 



491 



13,794 



1,140 



538 



494 



2,454 



294 



1,064 

 678 



2,528 



2.4781 



2,684,793, 



43,874i 



975,734: 



1,031,666 

 60,906 

 40,736 



44,743 



136,570 



62,283 



1,191,238 

 351,477 



120,756 



163,303 



98,255 



2,707,421 

 141,774 

 171,127 



115,541 



344,596 



41,780 



215,317 

 48,512 



257,317 



263,301 112,505,923:] 



294,602 



198,147 



93,550 



64,246 



1,165 



18,463 



32,486 



4,793 



614 



1,077 



2,170 



919 



13,556 

 3,794 



I 



1,309! 



2,035 



691 



19,698 



1,404 



647 



735 



3,177 



618 



2,304 

 892 



2,544 



392,102 



7,670,493 

 3,323,876 

 4,225,945 



7,450 



4,074,238 



64,698 



1,075,055 



1,852,223 



121.942 



64,137 



115,531 



227,710 



85,671 



1,810,256 

 481,450 



177,580 



250,458 



100,902 



3,837,112 

 172,726 

 194,079 



138,315 



873,142 



49,138 



310.533 

 120,490 



104,379 



17,392,099 



Agriculture remains, as it has always been by a long interval, the pre- 

 dominant pursuit of the people of South Carolina. Nevertheless, there 

 is evidence that this predominance is on the wane. Within the last 

 census decade the number of agricultural workers has only increased 

 twenty-one per cent., which is eleven per cent, less than the natural 

 increase of the working population, and twenty-three per cent, less than 

 the actual increase in workers in that period. The result is that, in com- 



