Journal
of Alfred Love Davidson
February 1858 to April 7, 1865
1860 The population of seven of the principal cities in the
Slave States:
Baltimore 214,037
New Orleans 170,766
St. Louis 162,179
Louisville 75,196
Washington City 61,400
Charleston 40,192
(Sasfille?) (744 scratched out) 23,745
Richmond 37,958
747,485
Population of The City & States in 1860
New York 814,277
Philadelphia 583,054
Brooklyn (spelled Brooklin) 273,425
Boston 177,902
Cincinatti 160,060
Chicago 109,420
Buffalo 84,000
Newark 72,655
2,304,773
2,304,773
San Francisco 61,000
Providence 50,687
Rochester 43,696
Detroit 46,834
Milwaukee 45,323
Cleveland 43,550
Troy 39,653
New Haven 30,277
Lowell 37,069
Jersey City 29,256
Cambridge 26,074
Roxbury 25,157
Charlestown (Mass) 25,127
Worcester 24,963
Reading 23,143
Salem 22,748
New Bedford 22,329
Dayton 20,132
2,924,912
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Submitted by Dave Davidson