San Francisco Genealogy - Great Register of San Francisco, 1867

Great Register
of San Francisco
1867

Thank you to the TAG group for transcribing this resource: Sharon Yost, Pamela Storm, Rich Wharff, Betty Vickroy, Doug Urbanus, Candice Francisco Toth, Carole Thomas, Kathy Styles, Dee Sardoch, Jennifer Norman, Marjorie Newton, Jeanne Moody, Sharon Kreyer, Joseph Kral, Carol Jackson, Brie Jackson, Dale Isaacson, Beth Humphrey, Sandra Harris, Linda Hamid, Cathy Gowdy, Ron Filion, Carolyn Feroben, Aviva Ernst, Marie Clayton, Jill Crowhurst-Chesnik, Marcella Brazelton, Judy Bodycote-Thomas, Darleen Berens, and Donna Becker.

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This Register contains information on approximately 16,365 individual males. This would be approximately one-half of the over-21-male citizens of San Francisco in 1870. The following table shows the population figures from the 1870 census. Also, note that voting age at the time was 21, and women were not given the right to vote until 1911 in California.

Source: Walker, Francis A., Supertindent of Census. *The Statistics of the Population of the United States..., Table 24: Selected Ages, with Sex, 1870, in each State and Territory by Counties.* Washington, 1872. <http://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/1870a-16.pdf>, June 2005.
TOTAL	Male	Female	Male 5-18	Female 5-18	Male 18-45	Male 21+	Male 21+ Citizens
149,473	86,182	63,291	17,856	16,685	49,053	54,728	33,370

Please note that this Great Register was originally divided into three sections under each alphabetical letter: (1) the principal list of registrations; (2) registrations after the printing of the principal list, and prior to July 1st, 1867; and, (3) names canceled after the printing of the preceding lists, and prior to July 1st, 1867. All three sections have been merged and sorted herein. Two columns of the original data have not been reproduced here: "No." (record number) and "Sworn" (whether they were sworn or something else). Finally, there was a short list of twelve names on a separate page labeled "Errata"; these corrections have been added to the modified list here. Below is the original text of the document for the first three pages. [Note that the "Number of Citizens" and "Number of Cancellations" stated below do not match the numbers that were found in this Register.]

An original copy of the book and a microfilm version is available at the San Francisco Public Library History Center.

Also, please take a look at our Naturalization page for more information on Great Registers.

Published by Authority.
GENERAL LIST
of
Citizens of the United States,
RESIDENT IN THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO,
AND REGISTERED IN THE

GREAT REGISTER
OF SAID CITY AND COUNTY.
JULY, 1867.

SAN FRANCISCO:
TOWNE AND BACON, PRINTERS FOR THE CITY.
No. 586 Clay Street, below Montgomery.

Certificate of County Clerk.

State of California,
City and County of San Francisco.

I, WM. LOEWY, County Clerk of the City and County of San Francisco under and by virtue of the provisions of Section 12 of the "Registry Act," approved March 19th, 1866---do hereby certify that the following is a General List, alphabetically arranged, of the Citizens of the United States, resident in said City and County, as they now stand registered and uncanceled on the "Great Register" thereof.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the County Court of said City and County, the 1st day of July, 1867.

WM. LOEWY,
County Clerk.

Number of Citizens registered in the Great Register up to date of foregoing Certificate, . . .16,550
Total Number of Cancellations, . . .278

NOTE.-Under each letter, at the conclusion of the principal List, will be found an additional List of Names, registered after the printing of the principal List, and prior to July 1st, 1867.

Following each additional List are the names canceled on the Great Register after the printing of the preceding lists, and prior to July 1st, 1867.

NATIVITY OF CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES
Registered in the
GREAT REGISTER
of the City and County of San Francisco.

Total Number Registered, 16,550.

NATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES
Maine	1,040	Arkansas	2
New Hampshire	396	Kansas	6
Vermont	351	Maryland	267
Massachusetts	1,711	District of Columbia	29
Connecticut	315	Virginia	194
Rhode Island	190	Kentucky	127
New York	2,686	Tennessee	55
New Jersey	284	North Carolina	27
Pennsylvania	761	South Carolina	47
Delaware	37	Georgia	26
Ohio	372	Florida	5
Wisconsin	18	Alabama	26
Indiana	82	Louisiana	100
Illinois	104	Mississippi	19
Iowa	11	Texas	9
Missouri	82	Born at Sea	6
California	6	TOTAL NUMBER	9,441

FOREIGN BORN
England and Scotland	770	Hungary	7
Ireland	3,579	Greece	3
France	108	British America Colonies	152
Germany and Switzerland	2,056	Spanish America	17
Scandinavia and Denmark	170	Mexico	1
Holland	17	West Indies	10
Belgium	11	East Indies	6
Spain	1	Australia	28
Portugal	14	China	2
Italy	21	Sandwich Islands	2
Russia and Poland	136	TOTAL NUMBER	7,109

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