Kentucky's Climate Observers - Civil War Years

The Smithsonian's climate observers in Kentucky during the Civil War years were a select group who seem to have been educated people, were likely to have been exposed to science, and had something more than a passing interest in climate. Their occupations as listed here were taken from the 1860 U.S. Census. Note that only one of occupations was agricultural. Eliza Young, who always signed her name as Mrs. Lawrence Young, was the wife of a farmer living on a large, apparently successful, farm. The others are non-rural. One would hesitate to call them urban because of the rather small city populations during this period.