According to the 1860 U. S. census, 393, 975 individuals, representing 8 % of all US families, owned 3, 950, 528 slaves.

Hess received a patent ( US No. 29. 077 ) for his invention of the vacuum cleaner on July 10, 1860.

Lieutenant Charles “ Savez ” Read may have been " anchor man " ( graduated last ) in the class of 1860, but his later service to the Confederate States Navy included defending New Orleans, service on CSS Arkansas and CSS Florida, and command of a series of captured Union ships that culminated in seizing the US Revenue Cutter Caleb Cushing in Portland, Maine.

According to the 1860 US Census and Slave Schedules, the total population of the county was 10, 656.

* Sam Cook ( 1860 – 1946 ), Served as a US Congressman

* Historical Census Browser, 1860 and 1870 US Census, Cobb Co., Georgia and Fulton Co., Georgia

As the terminus for the 642-mile-long Mullan Road, completed by the US Army in 1860, Fort Benton was part of the overland link between trade on the Missouri River and the Columbia River, at Fort Walla Walla, Washington.

* The 2009 auction ( for US $ 36 million ) of two imperial bronze zodiac sculptures collected by Yves Saint Laurent, looted in 1860 from the Old Summer Palace of Beijing by French and British forces at the close of the Second Opium War caused controversy.

* June 5-Lillian Russell, US singer and actress ( b. 1860 )

He was chosen as a delegate to the Republican Party convention which selected US presidential electors in both 1856 and 1860.

Adams returned home from Europe in the midst of the heated presidential election of 1860, which also was the year his father, Charles Francis Adams Sr., sought reelection to the US House of Representatives.

* Victor L. Berger ( 1860 – 1929 ), US politician

Perhaps the most disastrous lame duck period in US history was the 1860 – 1861 transition from the administration of James Buchanan to that of Abraham Lincoln.

William Walker ( May 8, 1824 – September 12, 1860 ) was a US lawyer, journalist and adventurer, who organized several private military expeditions into Latin America, with the intention of establishing English-speaking colonies under his personal control, an enterprise then known as " filibustering.

Rather than return him to the US, Salmon delivered Walker to the Honduran authorities in Trujillo, who executed him near the site of the present-day hospital by firing squad on September 12, 1860.

There are 8 Class I dollars, struck in 1834 for the aforementioned sets, 1 Class II dollar, struck over an 1857 Swiss Shooting Thaler ( and now residing in the US Coin Collection at the Smithsonian Institution ), and 6 Class III dollars, struck surreptitiously sometime between 1858 and 1860 to meet collector demand for the coin.

In the United States of track had been completed by 1840, by 1860 all major eastern US cities were linked by rail, and by 1869 the first trans-American railroad link was completed.

* William Jennings Bryan ( 1860 – 1925 ), orator and three times the Democratic Party's candidate for the US presidency

He was the 41st Governor of Georgia from 1853 to 1857 and the Vice Presidential nominee of the Douglas wing of the Democratic Party in the 1860 US presidential election.

John Bassett Moore ( December 3, 1860 – November 12, 1947 ) was an American authority on international law who was a member of the Hague Tribunal and the first US judge to serve on the Permanent Court of International Justice ( the " World Court ").

* Florence Harding ( 1860 – 1924 ), First Lady of the US

* Abijah Bigelow ( 1775 – 1860 ), US Representative from Massachusetts

In 1860, a US federal law ( Pacific Telegraph Act of 1860 ) was passed to subsidize a telegraph line, stating that:

In the 1860 United States Census the slave population in the United States had grown to four million, and in Reconstruction after the Civil War ( late 1860s ) the newly freed slaves became citizens with ( in the case of men ) a nominal right to vote.

To supplement his income from his medical practice, Mudd became a small scale tobacco grower, using five slaves according to the 1860 U. S. Slave Census .< ref >

Life expectancy was much higher in the U. S. ( because of better food, less disease, lighter work loads, and better medical care ) so the numbers grew rapidly by excesses of births over deaths, reaching 4 million by the 1860 Census.

The South's farms were not highly mechanized, but the value of farm implements and machinery in the 1860 Census was $ 81 million and was reduced by 40 % by 1870.

In the 1860 U. S. Census Putnam County had 9, 240 residents, with eighteen sawmills and three flour mills.

In the 1860 U. S. Census, only 12 Mercer County families were listed as slave owners, with a combined total of 24 slaves.

The 1860 U. S. Census showed the newly created Carter County with a population of 1, 197 free persons and 20 slaves held by eight slave owners.

The U. S. Federal Census of 1860 designated Port Ludlow as one of the three enumeration districts in Jefferson County, Washington Territory.

The Census Bureau estimates that during this period the number of persons that could not be categorized as white or black did not exceed 0. 25 % of the total population based on 1860 census data.

By the 1860 United States Census, the slave population in the United States had grown to four million.

The family lived in Henry County, Alabama ( 1860 Census ), before moving to Polk County, Texas ( 1870 Census ), and later to Cherokee County, Texas ( 1880 Census ).

* Pertaining to New York Commission Merchant Thomas Arnold Demill Listing Patchen Avenue, Eastern District of Brooklyn, New York 1860 U. S. Census

By using hachuring as a basis for his Karte des Österreichischen Kaiserstaates zur Übersicht der Dichtigkeit der Bevölkerung nach dem Census von 1857 ( Map of the Austrian imperial state as an overview of the population density after the 1857 census, 1860 ) and the map Die Ausdehnung der Slaven in der Türkei und den angrenzenden Gebieten ( Expansion of the Slavic populations in Turkey and adjacent territories, 1869 ) Petermann continued the representation of geological, climatological and ethnographical data that his teacher Heinrich Berghaus had begun two decades before.

He also published it in other cities as well: in Washington, D. C., between 1853 and 1857 ( during his tenure as Head of the U. S. Census ), continuing until 1860, then in Charleston, SC, 1861-1862.

The 1860 United States Census shows the family living in Creek Nation, Indian Lands, Arkansas.

According to the U. S. 1860 Census, one out of every four families in Virginia owned slaves.

The 1850 Census found a few families living there, while only two families were left on the island in 1860.

The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the Eighth Census of the United States in 1860.

Before this Congress, the 1860 United States Census and resulting reapportionment changed the size of the House to 241 members.