The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 52, July 1948 - April, 1949 Page: 239
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Texas Collection
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
John Nathan Cravens-American History, Modern Continental Euro-
pean History, and American Government.
Dissertation: The Life and Activities of James Harper Starr,
18o09-89o.
Joe B. Frantz--American History, Modern European and British His-
tory, and Government.
Dissertation: Infinite Pursuit: The Story of Gail Borden.
Cecil Alan Hutchinson-American History, European History, and
Latin-American Literature.
Dissertation: Valentin Gomez Farias: A Biographical Study.
Lucien Elliot Peevy-United States History, British and Continental
European History, and Sociology.
Dissertation: The First Two Years of Texas Statehood, z846-z847.
The publication in the Quarterly of Dr. Lathrop's recent arti-
cles dealing with the census and migration has stimulated interest
in population figures. The totals for Texas as shown by the
United States Census returns are as follows:
z850 212,592 190oo 3,048,7 10
z86o 604,215 1910o 3,896,542
z870 818,579 1920 4,663,228
z88o 1,591,749 x930 5,824,715
x89o 2,235,527 1940 6,414,824
In this connection a 1948 government publication, State Cen-
suses: An Annotated Bibliography of Censuses of Population
Taken After the Year 179o by States and Territories of the United
States, is quite timely. The Texas section (pp. 60-61) is repro-
duced below.
TEXAS
State Censuses were taken in the years 1847 and 1848 and censuses
were ordered by legislative acts* for the years 1851 and 1858. Returns
*Laws of Texas, grd Leg., 1849-185o, ch. 64, P. 74; ibid., 1857-1858, 7th Leg.,
ch. 45, P. 49.
from the census of 1851 and 1858 have not been seen nor has evidence
been found which shows that such enumerations took place.
The several census acts directed that the tax assessors file one copy
of the returns in the county clerks' offices and send another copy to
the Secretary of State. No information regarding the availability of
the original lists has been found.239
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