Of the 11,300 white population, the males numbered 6,020 and the
females 5,310. The disparity between the sexes was less marked than in the
other territories and indicated the preponderance of family life and ties.
(Andrew Love Neff, History of Utah: 1847 to 1869, ed. Leland Hargrave
Creer [Salt Lake City: The Deseret News Press, 1948], 165)