Excerpt from The City of Louisville and a Glimpse of Kentucky The population of Louisville in 1887 was estimated by several methods of computation to be about The exact figures of the estimate are The census of 1880 discovered only which was probably under the actual number, although the rapid growth of manufactures and the large increase in railroad facilities since 1880, readily account for the enormous growth of population. The city directory, compiled by Mr. C. K. Caron, one of the most careful and conscientious statisticians in Kentucky, gives an interesting summary of the increase of names in that publication. The number of names in the directory in 1880 was 1881, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1885, 1886, 1887. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.