An illustrated history of the State of Iowa : being a complete civil, political, and military history of the state, from its first exploration down to 1875; including a cyclopaedia of legislation during the administration of each of the governors, from Lucas (1836) to Carpenter; with historical and descriptive sketches of each county in the state separately, embracing interesting narratives of pioneer life, including an account of the commercial, agricultural and educational growth of Iowa . according to the census of 1863, wasas follows: Total number of whites, ...... 700,842 Total number of
An illustrated history of the State of Iowa : being a complete civil, political, and military history of the state, from its first exploration down to 1875; including a cyclopaedia of legislation during the administration of each of the governors, from Lucas (1836) to Carpenter; with historical and descriptive sketches of each county in the state separately, embracing interesting narratives of pioneer life, including an account of the commercial, agricultural and educational growth of Iowa . according to the census of 1863, wasas follows: Total number of whites, ...... 700,842 Total number of blacks, ....... 1,320 Total population, ....... 702,162 According to the census of 1865, the population of Iowa wasthen as follows: Total number of whites, ...... 751,125 Total number of blacks, - - - - . . 3,607 Total population, ... . 754,732 No report for 1865 from the populous county of Winneshiekhad been furnished, and the return for 1863 being taken for thiscounty, a heavy increase was thereby omitted in the above calcu-lation. The census of 1865 also having been taken in the earlyportion of the year, the spring and fall immigration was necessarilyleft out. In all probability there were now over 20,000 people,residents of Iowa, not included for these reasons in the abovestatement, which would give an actual population of about 775,-000. It will be observed that the increase had been much greaterdaring the last two years of the decade ending in 1865, than theformer 336 Tuttles History of Iowa. On the 10th day of January, 1866, the two houses met againin joint convention to canvass the votes for governor and lieuten-ant governor of the state and declare the result When the can-vass was concluded, it appeared that the whole number of votescast for governor was 124,869, of which William M. Stone re-ceived 70,445; Thomas H. Benton, 54,070; Gr. S. Bailey, 239 ;scattering, 115; and for the office of lieutenant governor thewhole number of votes cast was 125,558, of whic
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