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REPORT
OF
THE GOVERNOR OF OKLAHOMA.
TERRITORY OF OKLAHOMA, EXECUTIVE OFFICE,
Guthrie, October 9, 1891.
lou. JOHN W. NOBLE,
&cretary of the Interior,
Washington, D. 0.:
DEAR SIR: I arrived in this city on May 22, 1890, after my ap-pointment
as governor on the 15th of the same month, and found’
county seats established without county boundaries which, under your
instructions, I proceeded to define.
Finding no civil Officers to carry out the provisions of the Nebraska
law, under which we were to operate in pursuance of the organic act,
I at once appointed the county officers for the various counties.
POPULATION 1890.
For the purpose of ascertaining the population, nuder the provisions
of said act, I next selected and appointed enumerators, who, I think,
very carefully performed their work, when the population of the Terri-tory
was ascertained to be 60,417, aside from Greer County, as follows:
First county (now Logan). - - - - 14,254
Second county (now Oklahoma) 12,794
Third county (now Cleveland) 7,011
Fourth county (now Canadian) 7,703
Fifth county (now Kingfisher) . 8,837
Sixth county (now Payne). - - 6,836.
Seventh county (now l3eaver) 2,982
Divided as follows:
Whites - .~ 57,117
Colored. 3,289
Chinese 11
Males... 34,464
Females 25,953
Giithrie, county scat of Logan County. - - 5,884
Okh~homa City, eounty seat of Oklahoma County 5,086
Stiliwater, county seat of Payne County 625
El Ileno, county scat of Canadian County 519
Norman, county scat of Cleveland County... 764
Kinglisher, countyseat of Kingfisher County... 1,278
Beaver City, county seat of Beaver County (not separately enumerated).----
INT 91—VOL III—29 449
Object Description
| Title | TerrGov-1, 1890-1891--Steele. Report of the Governor of Oklahoma (George Washington Steele, 1891). |
| Author |
Steele, George Washington, 1839-1922 |
| Subject |
Steele, George Washington, 1839-1922 Oklahoma (Territory)--History Oklahoma--History--Sources Oklahoma--Politics and government--To 1907 Governors--Oklahoma |
| Description | The Governors of Oklahoma Territory issued annual reports from 1891 through 1907, when Oklahoma became a state. These reports, submitted to the Secretary of the Department of the Interior, vary from a few pages to many pages, and report on anything and everything that the current Governor believed to be important. |
| Physical description | 13 p. |
| Original Publisher | United States. Dept. of the Interior |
| Original Publication Date | 1891 |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf (.pdf); tiff files converted to pdf |
| Source | Oklahoma Dept. of Libraries, U.S. Government Information Division. Sudocs classification numbers: I 1.26:(year); also in I 1.1:(year) |
| Coverage | 1891 |
| Copyright and Permissions | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/ |
| Holding Institution | Oklahoma Department of Libraries, 200 N.E. 18th, Oklahoma City, OK 73105 |
| CONTENTdm file name | 618.cpd |
| CONTENTdm number | 617 |
Description
| Title | Page 1 |
| Transcript | REPORT OF THE GOVERNOR OF OKLAHOMA. TERRITORY OF OKLAHOMA, EXECUTIVE OFFICE, Guthrie, October 9, 1891. lou. JOHN W. NOBLE, &cretary of the Interior, Washington, D. 0.: DEAR SIR: I arrived in this city on May 22, 1890, after my ap-pointment as governor on the 15th of the same month, and found’ county seats established without county boundaries which, under your instructions, I proceeded to define. Finding no civil Officers to carry out the provisions of the Nebraska law, under which we were to operate in pursuance of the organic act, I at once appointed the county officers for the various counties. POPULATION 1890. For the purpose of ascertaining the population, nuder the provisions of said act, I next selected and appointed enumerators, who, I think, very carefully performed their work, when the population of the Terri-tory was ascertained to be 60,417, aside from Greer County, as follows: First county (now Logan). - - - - 14,254 Second county (now Oklahoma) 12,794 Third county (now Cleveland) 7,011 Fourth county (now Canadian) 7,703 Fifth county (now Kingfisher) . 8,837 Sixth county (now Payne). - - 6,836. Seventh county (now l3eaver) 2,982 Divided as follows: Whites - .~ 57,117 Colored. 3,289 Chinese 11 Males... 34,464 Females 25,953 Giithrie, county scat of Logan County. - - 5,884 Okh~homa City, eounty seat of Oklahoma County 5,086 Stiliwater, county seat of Payne County 625 El Ileno, county scat of Canadian County 519 Norman, county scat of Cleveland County... 764 Kinglisher, countyseat of Kingfisher County... 1,278 Beaver City, county seat of Beaver County (not separately enumerated).---- INT 91—VOL III—29 449 |
| Copyright and Permissions | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/ |
| CONTENTdm file name | 605.pdfpage |
| CONTENTdm number | 604 |
