In 1961, when the country's population was 46 million, there were only 102,000 live-in servants.
Now we turn our attention to the contribution of the seven live-in servants, whom we know from the 1870 census.
They also had five live-in servants, and Emmons' occupation was listed as a stock broker.
The country was built with the expectation that the average middle-class white family would have live-in servants.
The 1900 census indicates that about half of the households had live-in servants.
Most families had two live-in servants; some had four.
Also two live-in servants, a butler and a cook-housekeeper, a married couple.
They were reasonably affluent as is borne out by the fact that in 1880 they had three live-in servants.
He lived there with his wife, their eleven children, and ten live-in servants.
Some families took in boarders and several households included live-in servants.