HORSES (1870)
The following information relates to horse numbers in the Reeseville community according to the 1870 agricultural census schedules for the Towns of Lowell, Portland and Elba and the Village of Reeseville.
| Number of horses owned | Number of households with this size of herd |
| 0 | 23 |
| 1 | 6 |
| 2 | 76 |
| 3 | 15 |
| 4 | 26 |
| 5 | 4 |
| 6 | 8 |
| 7 | 1 |
| 8 | 0 |
| 9 | 1 |
| 12 | 1 |
| 25 | 1 |
The following households owned no horses in 1870:
Martin Gilmore, Henry Wille, William Sommercorn, Caspar Koenig, Wilhelm Roebel,
Gottfried Koenig, William McClayan, John Knarr, John Huebner, Martin Ott,
William Krueger, Patrick Flaherty, Fred Sander, Christian Hamm, Michael Lynch,
Michael Gallitz, Julia Hatch, John O'Leary, John Trumpf, Charles Griffin,
Michael Hathaway, Jacob Mehl
The following households owned 5 or more horses:
5 horses: Ludwig Schroeder, Thomas Newman, Jeremiah Burgess, J.C. Patten
6 horses: Leonhard Benninger, John Kohn, George Roth, Michael Wekerling,
Peter Reinhard, John Vokes, Thomas McGovern
7 horses: Martin Nagler
9 horses: James O'Leary
12 horses: Simon Boyle
25 horses: Samuel Austin