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6th. - 9th., (1840-1870)
Half-title: "Aggregate amount of each description of persons within the United States and their territories, according to the Census of 1840. . . ." The extended table for each state presents data showing for each county and minor divisions within each county the number of free white persons, free colored persons, and slaves by sex and age; number of persons employed in the several branches of the economy (e.g., mining, agriculture, commerce, manufacturing, etc.); number of pensioners for revolutionary or military services; deaf and dumb by age, blind, and insane persons, by color; schools, etc. (number of schools, pupils, and number of white persons over 20 years of age unable to read and write). Each state table is followed by a general recapitulation and the last table summarizes the data for the United States as a whole. (Dubester 24)
Prepared at the Department of State. Washington, D.C.: Printed by Thomas Allen, 1841. 379 p. (Dubester 25) (Dubester 26)
The following "divisions" are listed in the title under which the data for the states and territories are arranged: "1. Population by counties-classification of ages and color-aggregates; 2. Population by subdivisions of counties; 3. Nativities of the population; 4. Births, marriages, deaths, dwellings, and families; 5. Progress of the population; 6. Deaf and dumb, blind, insane, and idiotic; 7. Colleges, academies, schools, &c.; 8. Attending school during year, as returned by families; 9. Adults in the state who cannot read and write; 10. Professions, occupations, and trades of the male population; 11. Agriculture-farms and implements, stock products, home manufactures, &c.; 12. Newspapers and periodicals; 13. Libraries, other than private; and 14. Churches, church property, &c." (Dubester 30)
Half-title: "Manufactures in the several states and territories for the year ending June 1, 1850. Abstract of the statistics of manufactures, according to the returns of the seventh census, condensed from the digest completed under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, in conformity with the first section of the act of June 12, 1858, by Jos. C. G. Kennedy, superintendent." The main table presents statistics for each state and territory showing number of establishments, capital, cost of raw material, male hands, female hands, cost of labor, and value of products in the principal branches of manufactures. Table 2 presents similar data for miscellaneous manufactures in selected states. Table 3 is a general summary for all manufactures, and Table 4 is a summary of manufactures in the states and territories. (Dubester 31)
Deaths by cause and classified according to age, sex, color and condition (free, slave), nativity, season, and duration of sickness are tabulated for the United States, states, and territories. Deaths according to age, nativity, season, duration of illness, occupation, and color are given for the leading cities in the United States. (Dubester 32)
Contents: Introductory Remarks; Part I. Territory; Part II. Population (colonial population, population of the United States, white population of the United States, free colored population, slave population of the United States, aggregate population); Part III. Moral and social condition (religious worship, education, the press, libraries, charities, wages of labor, crime); Part IV. Industry (agriculture, manufactures, commerce, internal improvements); Part V. Property, revenue, and taxation; Part VI. Cities, towns, and counties. This last part summarizes the results of the census by states, and counties and includes an alphabetical list of cities, towns, townships, etc., showing county, district, or parish and state in which located together with total population in 1850. Also: Appendix佑alifornia State Census of 1852; age and sex of the white and free colored population in the leading Northern and Northwestern cities, and in the leading cities of the slaveholding states; nativities of the inhabitants in the leading cities of the United States; and ages of persons who died between June 1, 1849, and June 1, 1850. (Dubester 33)
Analytic introduction discusses the following: Population of the United States, slavery, Indian slavery, manumission of slaves, fugitive slaves, area and density of population, population at the military ages, sex, immigration, dwellings, nativities of the population, internal migration, marriages, births, mortality, population of foreign countries, the deaf and dumb, deaf and dumb and blind, the blind, and the insane. Statistical tables for each state and territory include: 1. Population by age, sex, and color according to counties; 2. Population by color and condition (free, colored, and slave) by counties; 3. Population of cities, towns, other subdivisions, by color and sex; 4. Free population, native and foreign, by counties; 5. Nativities of the free population; 6. Occupations. A final section recapitulates these data and in addition to the subjects already mentioned includes tables on the nativity of the free population in several large cities (Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Louis, and New Orleans), and data on the deaf and dumb, the blind, and the insane by age and nativity. Also: Appendix-"Deaf and dumb. Authors and books," and "The blind. Persons in America and Europe who have devoted special attention to the interests of the blind." (Dubester 37)
Analytic introduction is followed by statistics for states and counties: Acres of land in farms, improved and unimproved; cash value of farm and value of farming implements and machinery; livestock and value, and principa1 crops; farms containing three acres and more by size of farm; and number of slaveholders and slaves. (Dubester 38)
Analytic introduction is followed by statistics for states and counties: 1. Principal industry in each county with number of establishments, capital invested, cost of raw material, number employed by sex, annual cost of labor, and annual value of products; 2. Recapitulation by counties; 3. Recapitulation by industry. State tables are followed by regional and national summaries. (Dubester 39)
Mortality statistics include deaths in the year ending June 1, 1860, by states and districts according to age, sex, month, and disease. Extensive analytic commentary with text tables also included. Miscellaneous statistics include: Banks and insurance, value of real and personal estate, public press, railroads, canal and river improvements, manumission of slaves and fugitive slaves, changes of area, number of families and free population, churches, education (number of institutions and school attendance), libraries, taxes, pauperism and crime and wages, persons living over 100 years, average rate of mortality, and fisheries. (Dubester 40)
Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1872. xlix, 804 p. (Dubester 45)
Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1872. xxiii, 679 p. (Dubester 49)
Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1872. v, 843 p. (Dubester 52)
Includes statistics of population by race, nativity, and nationality; school attendance and illiteracy; schools, libraries, newspapers, and churches; pauperism and crime; areas, families and dwellings; sex, and school, military, and citizenship ages; occupations; the blind, deaf and dumb, insane, and idiotic; wealth, taxation, and public indebtedness; and agriculture, manufactures, mining and fishing. (Dubester 57)
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