Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1898 — OCCUPATIONS OF AMERICANS. [ARTICLE]

OCCUPATIONS OF AMERICANS.

Interesting Data About the Work of American People. Interesting data about the occupations of the American people are given in the bulletin of the eleventh census recently made public, says Mines and Minerals. It shows that the total number of people engaged in occupations of all kinds in 1890 was 22,735,961. Of the whole number of working people the females form 17.22 per cent. Divided by classes the working people of the country are as follows: Agriculture, fisheries and mining, 9,013,336; professional, 944,333; domestic and personal service, 4,360,577; trade and transportation, 3,326,122; manufacturing and mechanical industries, 5,091,293. Considerably more than fourfifths of the illiterate male population of the country and over one-fourth of the Illiterate female population are Working. Over 59 per cent, of the workingmen are married, over 27 single, over 3 widowed and one-quarter of J per cent, divorced. In manufactures and mechanics the carpenters and joiners, numbering 611,482, make up the greatest element, with dressmakers and milliners following with 499,690. There are a little over 1,000,000 bookkeepers, clerks and salesmen, 690,658 merchants and dealers, 5,281,557 farmers, planters and overseers and 3,004,061 agricultural laborers; 349,592 miners and only a little over 60,000 fishermen and oystermen. Professors and teachers, aggregating 347,344, form the most numerous of the professional classes. Physicians and surgeons, 104,805, come next; then lawyers, 89,630; clergymen, 88,203; government officials, 79,664; musicians, etc., 62,155; engineers and surveyors, 43,239; artists and art teachers, 22,496; journalists, 21,849,. and actors, 9,728.