The church in Louis was built of stone and dedicated to St. Anthony of Padua.
Louis was founded on 14 June 1766 by LeRoy & Pictet as a Roman Catholic colony. The colony of Chasselois was destroyed in 1785 and many of its surviving inhabitants relocated to Louis.
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1767 |
57
|
193
|
|
|
| 1769 |
50
|
202
|
103
|
99
|
| 1773 |
50
|
237
|
118
|
119
|
| 1788 |
|
|
|
|
| 1798 |
52
|
314
|
163
|
151
|
| 1816 |
|
|
|
|
| 1834 |
|
|
|
|
| 1850 |
|
|
|
|
| 1857 |
|
|
|
|
| 1859 |
|
2,091
|
|
|
| 1886 |
|
|
|
|
| 1891 |
|
|
|
|
| 1894 |
|
|
|
|
| 1897 |
|
3,208*
|
1,630
|
1,578
|
| 1904 |
|
|
|
|
| 1910 |
|
|
|
|
| 1912 |
|
5,393
|
|
|
| 1920 |
755
|
4,315
|
|
|
| 1926** |
545
|
2,744
|
1,328
|
1,416
|
*Of whom 3,193 were German.
**Of whom 2,740 were German (541 households: 1,324 male & 1,416 female).
Catholic
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Preliminary Results of the Soviet Census of 1926 on the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Pokrovsk, 1927): 28-83.
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