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The 1860 United States census was the eighth census conducted in the United States starting June 1, 1860, and lasting five months. It determined the population of the United States to be 31,443,321 [1] in 33 states and 10 organized territories. This was an increase of 35.6 percent [1] over the 23,191,876 [2] persons enumerated during the 1850 ...
Interactive semi-log plot of historical population of the 50 states of USA and the District of Columbia from 1900 to 2015 according to Federal Reserve Economic Data categorised by US census region. In theSVGfile , hover over a graph, its state abbreviation, its map or its region label to highlight it (and in SMIL-enabled browsers, click to ...
The Kingdom of Hawaii conducted censuses in 1832, 1836, 1850, 1853, 1860, 1866, 1872, 1878, 1884 and 1890. The Republic of Hawaii conducted a census in 1896. [ 1 ] [ 5 ] [ page needed ] The Territory of Hawaii (1898-1959) did not conduct any censuses, nor has the State of Hawaii .
In 1860, G.E. Rives owned 6 slaves in Prince George County, [11] and John E. Rives owned 35 slaves in Sussex County. [ 12 ] Rives won election and re-election as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1837 – March 3, 1841), but chose not to seek re-election in 1840.
By 1860 there were 58,042 free people of color (black or mulatto, as classified in the census) in Virginia. [28] Over the decades, many had gathered in the cities of Richmond and Petersburg where there were more job opportunities. Others were landowners who had working farms, or found acceptance from neighbors in the frontier areas of Virginia ...
In the 1860 federal census, the 70 year old reverend and his 32 year old wife Laura J Ruffner were living with James and Eliza Gaines' family at the Kanawha salines, at which time Ruffner owned $13,000 of real estate and $3,000 in personal property (which technically could include slaves, although he is absent from the corresponding slave ...
The 1850 census was the first with separate slave schedules, and by then Edmund Ruffin owned 84 enslaved people in Prince George county, [11] and 41 enslaved people in Hanover County, Virginia. [12] In the 1860 census, 31 slaves of Edmund Ruffin were leased to someone in Charles City county, [13] his sons Edmund Ruffin Jr. and J. C. Ruffin ...
In the 1860 federal census, he is listed as a farmer and his children listed, but either he freed all his slaves or the corresponding slave schedule may have been lost. [6] Caroline county voters elected Corbin as their representative in the Virginia House of Delegates in 1837, and re-elected him four times. [7]