Sometime ago, I reviewed the Georgetown census data for 1860 and 1870 to determine whether the steamboat men of Georgetown prospered from their Civil War contracts. According to the census data, the steamboat captains had accumulated the greatest wealth of any residents of Georgetown. Comparing the value of real and personal property of the 1860 and 1870 data, showed that the relative position of the captains changed little. Thomas Poe amassed more wealth than his older brothers, Jacob and Adam. Their brother-in-law, George W Ebert, was in last place in the 1860 census. However, only George W Ebert’s wealth increased between 1860 and 1870. The wealth of the Poe brothers, Thomas, Jacob, and Adam, decreased by 30-45%.
The census analysis is available on the page Census Data Analysis.
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