{212} In 1819, the Cincinnati Directory, a small book containing a list of the citizens, and many historical particulars, was published. Some extracts from that work will give a condensed view of the present magnitude and business of the place.
The enumeration of houses, made in March, 1819, was as follows:
| Of brick and stone, | two stories and upwards, | 387 |
| Do. Do. | of one story, | 45 |
| Of wood, | two stories and upwards, | 615 |
| Do. | one story, | 843 |
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| 1890 | ||
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| Occupied as separate dwelling houses, | 1003 | |
| Mercantile stores, | 95 | |
| Groceries, | 102 | |
| Druggists’ stores, | 11 | |
| Confectionaries, | 4 | |
| Auction and commission stores, | 5 | |
| Printing offices, | 5 | |
| Book and stationery stores, | 4 | |
| Places of public worship, | 10 | |
| Banks, | 5 | |
| Mechanics’ shops, factories, and mills, | 214 | |
| Taverns, | 17 | |
| College, court house, and jail, | 3 | |
| Warehouses and other buildings, | 412 | |
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| Total 1890 | ||
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Population, as taken in July, 1819
| White males, | 5402 | |
| White females, | 4471 | |
| —— | 9873 | |
| Male persons of colour, | 215 | |
| Females of colour, | 195 | |
| —— | 410 | |
| —— | ||
| 10283 | ||
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{213} Manufactures
| Work shops | Workmen | |
| Two iron and brass founderies, | 132 | |
| Blacksmiths, | 80 or 90 | |
| Tin ware manufactories, | 6 | 32 |
| Copper, Do. | 4 | 14 |
| Nail factories, | 2 | 13 |
| Silver smiths, (watch repairers included,) | 9 | 22 |
| White smiths, | 3 | |
| Gunsmiths, | 2 | |
| Fire engine maker, | 1 | 1 |
| Copperplate engraver, | 1 | 1 |
| Gilder, | 1 | 1 |
| Maker of sieves and lattice-work, from wire, | 1 | 1 |
| Cabinet work, | 15 | 84 |
| Coopers, | 16 | 50 |
| Coach and waggon makers, | 9 | 33 |
| Chair makers, | 4 | 31 |
| House carpenters and joiners, | from 80 to 100 | |
| and employing about | 400 | |
| Boat builders, employing | 60 or 70 | |
| Ivory and wood clock factory, | 14 | |
| Saddle tree makers, | 9 | |
| A plough maker; pump and block maker; a spinning wheel factory; a window maker; two turners of fancy wood-work; and one fanning mill maker. | ||
| Shoemakers, | 26 | 116 |
| Tailors, | 23 | 83 |
| Saddlers, | 11 | 32 |
| Tan-yards, | 6 | 25 |
| Tobacconists, | 6 | 70 |
| Bakers, | 15 | 38 |
| Hatters, | 5 | 37 |
| Soap boilers, and tallow chandlers, | 7 | 19 |
| Distilleries, | 9 | 20 |
| Rope-walks, | 3 | 10 |
| Breweries, | 2 | 20 |
| Potteries, | 3 | 14 |
| Stone cutters, | 2 | 15 |
| Brick-yards, | 25 | 200 |
There are some other manufacturers, mechanics, &c. such as the following, viz. Five book-binders; five painters and glaziers; two brush-makers; one {214} comb-maker; two upholsterers; one bellows-maker; two last-makers; one whip-maker; one hundred bricklayers; thirty plasterers; fifteen stone masons; eighteen milliners; one dyer; ten barbers and hair-dressers; ten street pavers; one burr millstone factory.
Cincinnati has a city court, occasional sittings of the Supreme and Federal Courts, and a court of common pleas; a museum of natural history; a library; a reading room; a theatre; three newspapers; five banks; an insurance company; three fire engines; a humane society for the resuscitation of persons submersed in water; an agricultural society; two Bible societies; two tract societies, (one of them for distributing Bibles and tracts amongst boatmen on the river;) four Sunday school societies; and three charitable societies. There are twenty-five lawyers and twenty-two doctors in town.
Of four provincial banks in town, the paper of three is reduced to about one-third part of the specie sums on the face of their notes, and the people are making a brisk run on the fourth. This paper shop is not paying in specie, but merely giving money like its own. When the barter can be no longer continued, the house must be shut, and the holders of the pictures find them of no value.