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The balloting in the county, also incomplete, was reported to have been 1,924 for Lincoln and 1,176 for McClellan.^^ In the election of 1864, the total vote in San Jose was more than 1,800 as against approximately 1,000 in the campaign of 1860. Soon after the election excitement had died down somewhat, Owen proudly asserted that San Jose was the "third city in the State in point of voting population."^^

(To be continued)

NOTES TO CHAPTER I

1. Eugene T. Sawyer, History of Santa Clara County, California (Los Angeles: Historic Record Co., 1922), pp. 108-9.

2. Information from Mr. Clyde Arbuckle, of San Jose, California.

NOTES TO CHAPTER II

1. San Jose Mercury, October 4, 1861.

2. Ibid.

3. Ibid., December 28, 1861.

4. Ibid., January 16, 1862.

5. Ibid., March 15, 1862.

6. Ibid., April 3, 1862.

7. Ibid., May i, 1862.

8. lbid.,]\i\Y 3, 1 86 1.

9. Ibid., December 18, 1862.

10. Ibid., January 8, 1863.

11. Ibid., June 18, 1863.

12. Julian Hawthorne, United States (New York, 1900), III, 1006.

13. San Jose Mercury, July 30, 1863.

14. Ibid.

15. Ibid., May 12, 1864.

16. Ibid., January 26, 1865.

17. Ibid., January 5, 1865.

18. Ibid., May 15, 1862.

19. Ibid., January 9, 1863.

20. Ibid.

21. Ibid., July 28, 1864.

22. Ibid., August 25, 1864.

23. Ibid., July 18, 1863.

24. Ibid., May 15, 1862.

25. /^f^., February 9, 1865.

NOTES TO CHAPTER III

1. Winfield J. Davis, History of Political Conventions in California, 1849-1892 (Sacramento, 1893), p. 127.

2. San Jose Mercury, March 13, 1861.

3. Ibid., April 16, 1861.

4. Ibid., June 6, 1861.

5. Quoted in ibid., May 2, 1861.

6. Elijah R. Kennedy, The Contest for California in 1861 (Boston, 1916) p. 218.

7. San Jose Mercury, May 9, 1861.

8. Ibid., June 6, 1861.