Journal
of Alfred Love Davidson
February 1858 to April 7, 1865
Population of the
The United States in 1860
Free Population 27,112,000
Slave population 3,878,000
Population of all the Territories 334,856
Total population 31,374,856
Total population in 1850 23,191,074
Increase in ten years 8,183,782
Population of Kansas & Pikes Peak in 1860 148,400
1861 Frost the 26 of September.
October the 11 ice this morning for the first this fall.
1862 October 11 had frost this morning for the first this season, vegetation all
killed.
Stars fell in 1824 and will fall again in 1892 according to astronomy.
Locust year 1850 again in '64.
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