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The southern part of the State, known as " Egypt," received this appellation be- cause, being older. better settled and cultivated, grain was had in greater abundance than in the central and northern portion, and the immigrants of this region, after the manner of the children of Israel, went " thither to buy and to bring from thenee that they might live and not die."
STATE BANK.
The Legislature, during the latter years of territorial existence, granted charters to several banks. The result was that paper money became very abundant, times flush, and eredit unlimited ; and every body invested to the utmost limit of his eredit, with confident expectation of realizing a handsome advance before the expiration of his credit, from the throng of immigrants then pouring into the country. By 1819 it became apparent that a day of reckoning would approach before their dreams of fortune could be realized. Banks everywhere began to waver, paper money became depreciated. and gold and silver driven out of the country. The Legislature sought to bolster up the times by incorporating the " Bank of Illinois," which, with several branches, was created by the session of 1821. This bank, being wholly supported by the credit of the State, was to issue one. two, three, five, ten and twenty-dollar notes. It was the duty of the bank to advance. upon personal property, money to the amount of $100. and a larger amount upon real estate. All taxes and publie salaries could be paid in such bills ; and if a creditor refused to take them, he had to wait three years longer before he could collect his debt. The people imagined that simply because the Government had issued the notes, they would remain at par ; and although this evidently could not be the case, they were yet so infatuated with their project as actually to request the United States Government to receive them in payment for their public lands! Although they were not wanting men who, like John McLean, the Speaker of the House of Representatives. foresaw the dangers and evils likely to arise from the creation of such a bank, by far the greater part of the people were in favor of it. The new bank was therefore started. The new issue of bills by the bank of course only aggravated the evil, heretofore so grievously felt, of the absence of specie, so that the people were soon compelled to eut their bills in halves and quarters, in order to make small change in trade. Finally the paper currency so rapidly depreciated that three dollars in these bills were considered worth only one in specie, and the State not only did not increase its revenue, but lost fully two-thirds of it, and expended three times the amount required to pay the expenses of the State Government.
LAFAYETTE'S VISIT.
In the Spring of 1825 the brave and generous LaFayette visited Ilinois, accepting the earnest invitation of the General Assembly, and an affectionately written letter of Gov. Cole's, who had formed his personal acquaintance in France in 1817. The General in reply said : " It has been my eager desire, and it is now my earnest intention, to visit the Western States, and particularly the State of Illinois. The feelings which your dis- tant welcome could not fail to excite have increased that patriotic eagerness to admire
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TENHERE
SONDERS
TLOUIS
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS NORMAL UNIVERSITY, AT CARBONDALE.
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on that blessed spot the happy and rapid results of republican institutions. publie and domestic virtues. I shall, after the 22d of February (anniversary day), leave here for a journey to the Southern States, and from New Orleans to the Western States, so as to return to Boston on the 14th of June, when the corner-stone of the Bunker Ilill monu- ment is to be laid,-a ceremony sacred to the whole Union and in which I have been en- gaged to act a peculiar and honorable part."
General LaFayette and suite, attended by a large delegation of prominent citizens of Missouri, made a visit by the steamer Natchez to the ancient town of Kaskaskia. No military parade was attempted, but a multitude of patriotic citizens made him welcome. A reception was held. Gov. Cole delivering a glowing address of welcome. During the progress of a grand ball held that night, a very interesting interview took place between the honored General and an Indian squaw whose father had served under him in the Revolutionary war. The squaw, learning that the great white chief was to be at Kas- kaskia on that night, had ridden all day, from early dawn till some time in the night, from her distant home, to see the man whose name had been so often on her father's tongue, and with which she was so familiar. In identification of her claim to his dis- tinguished acquaintance, she had brought with her an old, worn letter which the Gen- eral had written to her father, and which the Indian chief had preserved with great care. and finally bequeathed on his death-bed to his daughter as the most precious legacy he had to leave her.
At 12 o'clock at night Gen. LaFayette returned to his boat and started South. The boat was chartered by the State.
EARLY GOVERNORS.
In the year 1822 the term of office of the first Governor, Shadrach Bond, expired. Two parties sprung up at this time-one favorable, the other hostile, to the introduction of slavery, each proposing a candidate of its own for Governor. Both parties worked hard to secure the election of their respective candidates ; but the people at large de - cided, as they ever have been at heart, in favor of a free State. Edward Coles, an anti- slavery man, was elected, although a majority of the Legislature were opposed to him. The subject of principal interest during his administration was to make Illinois a slave State. The greatest effort was made in 1824, and the proposition was defeated at the polls by a majority of 1,800. The aggregate vote polled was 11,612, being about 6,000 larger than at the previous State election. African slaves were first introduced into Illinois in 1719 by Renault, a Frenchman.
Senator Duncan, afterward Governor, presented to the Legislature of 1824-5 a bill for the support of schools by a public tax ; and William S. Hamilton presented another bill requiring a tax to be used for the purpose of constructing and repairing the roads - both of which bills passed and became laws. But although these laws conferred an in- calculable benefit upon the public, the very name of a tax was so odious to the people that, rather than pay a tax of the smallest possible amount, they preferred working as they formerly did, five days during the year on the roads, and would allow their children to grow up without any instruction at all. Consequently both laws were abolished in 1826.
In the year 1826 the office of Governor became again vacant. Ninian Edwards, Adolphus F. Hubbard and Thomas C. Sloe were candidates. Edwards, though the suc- cessful candidate, had made himself many enemies by urging strict inquiries to be made into the corruption of the State bank, so that had it not been for his talents and noble personal appearance, he would most probably not have been elected. Hubbard was a man of but little personal merit. Of him tradition has preserved, among other eurious sayings, a speech on a bill granting a bounty on wolf-sealps. This speech, delivered be- fore the Legislature, is as follows: "Mr. Speaker, I rise before the question is put on
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this bill, to say a word for my constituents. Mr. Speaker, I have never seen a wolf. I can not say that I am very well acquainted with the nature and habits of wolves. Mr. Speaker. I have said that I had never seen a wolf : but now I remember that once on a time, as Judge Brown and I were riding across the Bonpas prairie, we looked over the prairie about three miles, and Judge Brown said, 'Hubbard, look ! there goes a wolf ;' and I looked, and I looked, and I looked, and I said, 'Judge, where ?' and he said, . There!' And I looked again, and this time in the edge of a hazel thicket, about three miles across the prairie, I think I saw the wolf's tail. Mr. Speaker, if I did not see a wolf that time, I think I never saw one ; but I have heard much, and read more, about this animal. I have studied his natural history.
" By the by, history is divided into two parts. There is first the history of the fab- ulous ; and secondly, of the non-fabulous, or unknown age. Mr. Speaker, from all these sources of information I learn that the wolf is a very noxious animal ; that he goes prowl- ing about, seeking something to devour ; that he rises up in the dead and secret hours of night, when all nature reposes in silent oblivion, and then commits the most terrible de- vastation upon the rising generation of hogs and sheep.
" Mr. Speaker, I have done ; and I return my thanks to the House for their kind at- tention to my remarks."
Gov. Edwards was a large and well-made man, with a noble, princely appearance. Of him Gov. Ford says : "He never condescended to the common low art of election- eering. Whenever he went ont among the people he arrayed himself in the style of a gentleman of the olden time, dressed in fine broadcloth, with short breeches, long stock- ings, and high, fair-topped boots; was drawn in a fine carriage driven by a negro ; and for success he relied upon his speeches, which were delivered in great pomp and in style of diffuse and florid eloquence. When he was inaugurated in 1826, he appeared before the General Assembly wearing a golden-laced cloak, and with great pomp pronounced his first message to the Houses of the Legislature.
The first mail route in the State was established in 1805. This was from Vincennes to Cahokia. In 1824 there was a direct mail route from Vandalia to Springfield. The first route from the central part of the State to Chicago was established in 1832, from Shelbyville. The difficulties and dangers encountered by the early mail carriers, in time of Indian troubles, were very serious. The bravery and ingenious devices of Harry Milton are mentioned with special commendation. When a boy, in 1812, he conveyed the mail on a wild French pony from Shawneetown to St. Louis, over swollen streams and through the enemy's country. So infrequent and irregular were the communications by mail a greater part of the time, that to-day, even the remotest part of the United States is unable to appreciate it by example.
The first newspaper published in Illinois was the Illinois Herald, established at Kas- kaskia by Mathew Duncan. There is some difference of opinion as to the exact time of its establishment. Gov. Reynolds claimed it was started in 1809. Wm. H. Brown, afterwards its editor, gives the date as 1814.
In 1831 the criminal code was first adapted to penitentiary punishment, ever since which time the old system of whipping and pillory for the punishment of criminals has been disused.
There was no legal rate of interest till 1830. Previously the rate often reached as high as 150 per cent., but was usually 50 per cent. Then it was reduced to 12, then to 10, and lastly to 8 per cent.
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GENERAL HISTORY OF ILLINOIS.
POPULATION OF ILLINOIS BY COUNTIES FROM 1820 TO 1870.
AGGREGATE.
COUNTIES.
1870.
1560.
1×50.
1×10.
1530.
1520.
Adams
56,362
41,323
26,508
14,476
2,186
Alexander
10,564
4.707
2,454
3.313
1,390
626
Bond
13,152
9,815
6,144
5,060
3,124
2,931
Boone.
12,942
11,678
7.624
1,705
Brown
12,205
9.93S
7,198
4.183
Bureau
32,415
26,426
S,841
3.067
Calhoun.
6,562
5,144
3.231
1.741
1,090
Carroll
16,705
11.733
4.586
1,023
Cass
11,580
11,325
7.253
2,981
Champaign
32,737
14,629
2.649
1,475
Christian
20,363
10,492
3,203
1.8-S
Clark
18,719
14.987
9,532
7.453
3,940
931
Clay
15,875
9.336
4.289
3.228
755
Clinton
16,285
10,941
5.139
3,718
2.330
Coles
25.235
14,203
9.335
9.616
Cook
349.966
144,954
43.385
10,201
Crawford
13,889
11.551
7,135
4 432
3,117
2,999
Cumberland
12,223
8.311
3.718
De Kalb
23,265
19.086
7.540
1,697
De Witt
14,768
IO,820
5,002
3.247
Douglas
13,484
7,140
Du Page.
16.685
14,701
9,290
3.535
4,071
Edwards
7,565
5.454
3.524
3,070
1,649
3.444
Effingham
19.638
11,159
8,075
6,325
2,704
Ford.
9,103
1,979
Franklin
12,652
9.393
5.6SI
3,682
4,083
1.763
Fulton
38,291
33.33$
22,508
13,142
1,841
Gallatin
11,134
8,055
5.448
10,760
7.405
1,355
Greene
20.277
16,093
12,429
11,951
7.674
Grundy
14.938
10,379
3.023
Ilamilton.
13,014
9,915
6.36
3.945
2,616
llancock
35.935
29.061
14,052
9.946
453
Hardin .
5.113
3,759
2.857
1,378
Henderson
12.582
9.501
4.612
Ilenry
35.506
20,660
3. So7
1.260
41
Iroquois.
25.782
12,325
4.149
1,695
Jackson
19,634
9.589
5,862
3.566
1,83S
1,542
Jasper.
11,234
8,364
3,220
1.472
Jefferson
17,864
12,965
8,109
5.762
2,555
691
Jersey
15,054
12,051
7,354
4.535
Jo Daviess
27,S20
27,325
18.604
6,180
2,111
Johnson
11,248
9.342
4,114
3,620
1,596
$43
Kane
39,091
30,062
16,703
6,501
Kankakee
24.352
15,412
7.730
Knox
39.522
28,663
13,279
7,060
274
Lakc.
21,014
18,257
14,226
2,634
LaSalle
60,792
48,332
17,815
9.348
23*
Edgar.
21,450
16,925
10,602
S 225
Fayette
15,653
7.8:6
3.799
1,675
Kendall
12.399
13,074
GENERAL HISTORY OF ILLINOIS.
POPULATION OF ILLINOIS BY COUNTIES FROM 1820 TO 1870 .- Continued.
AGGREGATE.
COUNTIES.
1870.
1860.
1850.
1840.
1830.
1820.
Lawrence
12,533
9,214
6,121
7,092
3,668
Lee
27, 171
17,651
5,292
2,035
Livingston
31,471
11,637
1,553
759
Logan
23,053
14,272
5,128
2,333
Macon
26,481
13,738
3,988
3,039
1,122
Macoupin
32,726
24,602
12,355
7,926
1,990
Madison.
44,131
31,251
20,44I
14,433
6,221
13,550
Marion.
20,622
12,739
6,720
4,742
2,125
Marshall
16,950
13,437
5,ISO
1,849
Mason
16,184
10,93I
5,921
Massac
9,581
6,21 3
4,092
McDonough
26,509
20,069
7,616
5,308
(6)
McHenry
23,762
22,089
14,978
2,578
McLean
53,988
28,772
10, 163
6,565
Menard
11,735
9,584
6,349
4,431
Mercer
18,769
15,042
5,246
2,352
26
Monroe
12,982
12,832
7,679
4,481
2,000
1,516
Montgomery
25,314
13,979
6,277
4,490
2,953
Morgan
28,463
22, II2
16,064
19,547
12,714
Moultrie.
10,385
6,385
3,234
Ogle
27,492
22,888
10,020
3,479
Peoria
47,540
36,601
17,547
6,153
(c)
Perry
13,723
9.552
5,278
3,222
1,215
Piatt
10,953
6,127
1,606
Pike
30,768
27,249
18,819
11,728
2,396
2,610
Pulaski
8,752
5,587
3,924
2,131
C1,310
4,429
3,492
Richland
12,803
9,71I
4,012
Rock Island
29,783
21,005
6,937
Saline
12,714
9,331
5,588
Sangamon
46,352
32,274
19,228
14,716
12,960
Schuyler.
17,419
14,684
10,573
6.972
b2,959
Scott.
10,530
9,069
7,914
6,215
Shelby
25,476
14,613
7,807
6,659
2,972
Stark
10,75I
9,004
3,710
1,573
St. Clair
51,068
37,694
20,180
13,631
7,078
5,248
Stephenson
30,608
25, 112
11,666
2,800
Tazewell
27,903
21,470
12,052
7,221
4.716
Union_
16,518
11, 18I
7,615
5.524
3,239
2,362
Vermillion.
30,388
19,800
11,492
9,303
5,836
Wabash
8,841
7,313
4,690
4,240
2,710
Warren
23,174
18,336
8,176
6,739
308
Washington
17,599
13,73I
6,953
4,810
1,675
1,517
Wayne
19,758
12,223
6,825
5,133
2,553
1,114
White.
16,846
12,403
8,925
7,919
6,091
4,828
Whitesides
27,503
18,737
5,361
2,514
Will
43,013
29,32I
16,703
10,167
Williamson
17,329
12,205
7,216
4.457
Winnebago
29,30I
24,491
11,773
4,609
Woodford
18,956
13,282
4,415
*49
Total
2,529,891
1,711,95I
851,470
476,183
157.445
55,162
Pop
11,437
6,742
3,975
4,094
Randolph
20,859
17,205
11,079
7,944
3,316
3,943
2,265
Putnam
6,280
2,610
*5
215
*21
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PRODUCTIONS OF AGRICULTURE BY COUNTIES. - 1870.
COUNTIES.
Impr'd Land, Number.
Woodland, Other unim- Number. pro'd. No.
Spr'g Wheat, Win'r Wheat, Bushels.
Rye, Bushels.
Indian Corn, Bushels.
Oats, Bushels.
Adanıs
287,926
112.576
19,370
16,191
947,616
20,959
1,452.905
759.074
Alexander
13,536
17,761
42,658
30
244.220
21,627
Bond.
145,045
42,613
1,915
700
368,625
6,240
1,004,052
461,097
Boone
137,307
29,8861
2,658
241,042
599
35,571
466,985
579,127
Brown.
57,062
35,491
25,608
13,276
117.502
4.742
337,769
70,852
Bureau
398,611
41,866
15,803
465.236
724
43.511
3,030,404
987.426
Calhoun
37,684
63,443
2,754
75
221,29S
156
234,041
26,234
Carroll
186,564
29.793
33.302
418,073
200
25.721
1,367,965
775,100
Cass ..
92,902
33,493
6,60.
12,165
127.054
2,772
1.146,950
168,784
Champaign
419.368
16,789
58,502
102,577
123,091
45.752
3.924.720
721,375
Christian
241,472
19,803
19,173
18,360
504,041
10,722
1,8$3,336
383.821
Clark
118,594
102,201
5,420
195, 118
7.30S
614.582
212,628
Clay.
146,922
80,612
5,225
1,894
85.737
3.221
1,019,994
269,945
Clinton
150,177
48,868
8, 722
500
610,883
1,619
S13,257
446,324
Coles
208.337
45,214
3.274
2.651
154.484
S.825
2,133.11I
315,954
Cook
348,824
19.635
17,337
144,296
4,904
20,171
570,427
1,584,225
Crawford
105.505
78,350
27,185
60
212,924
15.497
581,964
136,255
Cumberland
75,342
40,334
5,604
550
84.697
14.798
403,075
171,880
DeKalb
334.502
17.722
6,551
398,059
1901
21,015
1,023,849
1,057.074
De Witt
168,539
29,54S
17,633
106.493
11,695
11,540
1,311,635
216,756
Douglas
147,633
11,897
7.316
7,683
65.461
9.017
1,680,225
225.074
Du Page
164,874
17,243
3.851
106,096
693
7,532
331,981
860,809
Edgar
265,458
66,803
14,282
13,283
247.360
37.505
2,107,615
290,679
Effingham
120,343
56,330
26 206
77
195,716
19.759
620,247
356,073
Fayette.
187,196
93.460
16,786
42,571
1,00S
11,577
565,671
154,559
Franklin
80,749
3.994
86,710
365
111,324
5.195|
653,209
222,426
Fulton
228,132
123.823
4,076
223.930
131,711
1,508,763
261,390
Gallatin
49,572
68,750
2,565
$3,093
512
509.491
27,164
Greene
175,408
93,242
29,653
21,700
150
4.930
295.971
269,332
Hancock
311,517
43.385
18,480
IS1,37S
232,750
133 533
1.510,401
579,599
HJardin
28,117
44.771
107
13
32,306
865
172,651
20,991
lIenderson
140.954
34,705
14,243
161,112'
69,062
96,430
1.712,001
229.286
Henry
265.904
12,620
31,459
462,379,
445
35.766
2,541.683
668,307
Iroquois
322,510
22.478
63,498
57,160
10,450
23,259
799,810
430,746
Jackson
78.548
87 642
5,991
890
329,036
524
611,951
149.931
Jasper
90,867
67,023
12,250
87.Sos
9,165
461,345
149,214
Jefferson
118,951
94,888
778
282,758
555
7,155
1,250,326
$74.016
Johnson
57.820
3
79.141
Kane
240,120
34.646
399
188,826
325
23,61S
674.333
785,608
Kankakee
312,182
10,97S
10,59S
103,466
450
12,935
637.399
772,405
Kendall
164,004
14,244
2,253
90,68 1
1,249
5.163
681,267
468,890
Knox
330,829
41,566
25,155
207,764
7,654
113.547
2,708.319
757,952
Lake
207.779
21,072
24,399
168,914
221
5.570
517,353
690,069
LaSalle
533.724
48,117
2,356
271,181
2,193
45.30S
3.077,025
1,509,642
Lawrence
87,828!
72,738
3.273
264.134
1,121
050,363
131.356
Lce
322,212
12,071
7.409
450,793
2,200
14 829
1,650,978
903.197
Livingston
377.505
12,462
41,788
120,206
1.339
20,103
1.182,696
659,300
Logan
321,709
17.394
408
198,056
40,903
37.232
4.221,640
490, 226
Macon
205,259
18,153
9.115
55.239
196,613
29 223
2,214,465
454,048
Macoupin
231,059
81,224
7.343
160
861,39S
2,404
1,051,544
459.417
Madison
257,032
89,450
13.675
550
1,207,151
3,685
2,127,549
475,252
Marshall
166,057
28,260
2,976
106,129
900
36,135
1,152,903
362,604
Mason
209.453
31,739
31,013
73.261
125,028
49,182
2,648,726
272,660
Massac
25,151
33.390
30
72,316
544
133,126
22,097
McDonough
261,635
52,547
14,035
273.871
36,146
52.401
1,362,490
250.717
Mellenry
230,566
53,293
57,998
401,790
270
29,264
1,145,005
910,397
McLean
494,978|
40,366}
49.087|
211,801
10,955
39,824
3.723,379
911,127
58,912
57.585
830
193,669
577.400
415
1,051,313
64.029
Ilamilton
88,996
93.878
3,343
129
92,347
11,672
735.252
203.464
Jersey
94.147
51,427
1,363
555,367
519,120
71,770
JoDaviess
156,517
82,076
45,779
122,703
528
352,371
129,152
Ford
141,228
2,996
63.976
351,310
25,3281
962.525
497.395
Grundy
193,999
6,256
4.505
92,191
2,465
343.298
74.525
Marion
173.081
61,579
4,142
173.652
14.517
1,034,057
389,446
100,553
5,934
255.949
Edwards
Bushels.
217
GENERAL HISTORY OF ILLINOIS.
PRODUCTIONS OF AGRICULTURE BY COUNTIES-1870 .- Continued.
COUNTIES.
Impr'd Land, Number.
Woodland, Number.
Other unim- pro'd. No.
Spr'g Wheat, Win'r Wheat, Bushels.
Bushels.
Rye, Bushels.
Indian Corn, Bushels.
Oats, Bushels.
Menard
134,173
34,931
13,952
36,152
45,793
4,283
1,973,880
235,09I
Mercer
222,809
45,977
22,588
289,29I
13,203
40,778
2,054,962
452,889
Monroe.
92,810
83,369
666
651,767
1,425
543,718
152,25I
Montgomery
276,682
47,804
8,495
59
744,891
3,296
1,527,898
668,424
Morgan
293,450
60,217
1,376
18,196
357,523
5,535
3,198,835
198,724
Moultrie
144,220
24,783
13,112
17,128
196,436
6,670
1,753,141
263,992
Ogle
316,883
43,643
14,913
497,038
5,580
157,504
1,787,066
141,540
Peoria
170,729
48,666
2,516
92,36I
31,843
99,502|
969,224
334,892
Perry
93,754
68,470
220
350,446
1,016|
384,446
338,760
Piatt
94,454
5,978
13,897
26,382
39,762
9,248
1,029,725
130,610
Pike
233,785
128,953
9,302
130
70,457
2,309
315,958
67,886
Pulaski
19,319
12,516
44,922
222
195,735
16,51I
Putnam
37,27I
17,184
. 4,174
28, 1 37
796
7,707
334,259
86,519
Randolph
140,764
162,274
1,170
450
1,031,022
3,235
5 10,080
414,487
Richland.
75,079
50,618
2,025
150,268
3,40I
482,594
204,634
Rock Island.
155,214
31,239
20,755
243,54I
2,279
20,003
1,459,653
276,575
Saline
72,309
70.393
809
200
83,0II
568
531,516
69,793
Sangamon
421,748
51,085
19.932
89,304
247,658
23,073
4,388,763
397,718
Schuyler
96,195
62.477
21,294
56,22I
165,724
20,841
440,975
119,359
Scott
85,33I
44,633
1,610
I8
266,105
930
752,77I
13,462
Shelby
310,179
74,908
9,314
15,526
452,015
23,686
2,082,578
637,812
Stark
138,129
12,375
2,783
124,630
1,562,621
1,008
1,423,12I
476,85I
Stephenson
254,857
43,167
13,70I
527,394
2, 118
135,362
1,615,679
960,620
Tazewell
229, 126
45,268
14,846
132,417
72,410
59,027
2,062,053
505,841
Union
75,832
83,606
5,300
180,231
1,737
679,753
124,473 436,051
Wabash
54,063
37,558
509
186,290
5,712
72,212
2,982,853
601,054
Washington
177,592
55,852
1,931
266
164,689
8,665
1, 179,29I
404,482
White
92,398
78,167
869
184,321
418
870,52I
119,653
Whiteside
289,809
21,823
37,310
457,455
264
31,658
2,162,943
880,838
Will
419,442
24,26I
6,335
195,286
1,996
8,030
1, 131,458
1,868,682
Williamson
128,448
116,949
1,648
176
170,787
6,228
655,710
190,986
Winnebago
2.41,373
37,238
15,237
408,606
2,468
137,985
1,237,406
868,903
Woodford
225,504
25,217
23,135
178,139
108,307
20,426
2,154,185
744,581
Total
19,329,952
5,061.578
1,491,33I
10, 133,207
19.995.198
2,456,578|
129,921,395'
42,780,85I
POPULATION OF FIFTY PRINCIPAL AMERICAN CITIES.
CITIES.
Aggregate Population.
CITIES.
Aggregate Population.
CITIES.
Aggregate Population.
New York, N. Y.
942,292
Detroit, Mich,
79,577
Scranton, Pa.
35,092
Philadelphia, Pa.
674,022
Milwaukee, Wis.
71,440
Reading, Pa.
33,930
Brooklyn, N. Y.
396,099
Albany, N. Y.
69,422
Paterson, N. J
33,579
St. Louis, Mo.
3 10, 864
Providence, R. I.
68,904
Kansas City, Mo.
32,260
Chicago, Il1.
298,977
Rochester, N. Y.
62,386
Mobile, Ala.
32,034
Baltimore, Md.
267,354
Allegheny, F
53,280
Toledo, Ohio
31,584
Boston, Mass.
250,526
Richmond, Va.
51,038
Portland, Me.
31,413
Cincinnati, Ohio
216,239
New Haven, Conn
50,840
Columbus, Ohio
31,274
New Orleans, La.
191,418
Charleston, S. C.
48,956
Wilmington, Del.
30,84I
San Francisco, Cal.
149,473
Indianapolis, Ind.
48,244
Dayton, Ohio
30,473
Buffalo, N. Y.
117,714
Troy, N. Y.
46,465
Lawrence, Mass.
28,93I
Washington, D. C.
109, 199
Syracuse, N. Y.
43,051
Utica, N. Y.
28,804
Newark, N. J.
105,059
Worcester, Mass.
41,105
Charlestown, Mass.
28,323
Louisville, Ky.
100,753
Lowell, Mass.
40,928
Savannah, Ga.
28,235
Cleveland, Ohio
92,829
Memphis, Tenn.
40.226
Lynn. Mass.
28,233
Pittsburg, Pa.
86,076
Cambridge, Mass
39,634
Fall River, Mass.
26,766
Jersey City, N. J
82,546
Hartford, Conn
37,180
249,558
52 476
2,818,027
421, 361
110,793
Warren
266, 187
27,294
14,583
672,486
2,576
836,115
533,398
Wayne
147,352
146,794
10,486
44,806
202,20I
30,534
1,149,878
316,726
St. Clair
231,117
76,59I
2,016
2,550
1,057,497
25,303
1,399, 188
161,419
Pope
55,980
87.754
Vermilion
360,25I
53,078
31, 122
15
218
GENERAL HISTORY OF ILLINOIS.
POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES.
States and Territorles.
Area In Square Miles.
Population.
5Miles Railroad 1872.
States and Territories.
Area in Square Miles.
1870.
1875.
Milea Railroad 1872.
States.
Stales.
Alabama
50.722
996,992
1,671
Oregou
95,244
90.923
159
Arkansas
52.199
494.471
25
Peunsylvania
46,000
3,521.79)
5,113
California
185.981
560,247
1,018
Rhode Island.
1.806
217.853
255.299
136
Connecticut
4,674
537.454
120
South Carolina
29.885
705,606
925.145
1.201
Delaware
2.120
125,015
Tennessee.
45,600
1.258.520
1.520
Florida
59.268
187.748
466
Texas.
237.504
818.579
865
Georgia
58.000
1,184, 109
2,108
Vermont
10.212
930.55]
625
lillnols
55,410
2.539.891
5.904
Virginia
40,904
1.225.168
1.490
Indiana
93,809
1.680.637
3.529
West Virginia
23.000
442.014
485
Wisconsin ..
53.924
1.054.670
1,236,729
1,725
Kansas
81,31H
364.899
58,349
1.760
Kentucky
37.600
1,321.011
1,123
Louisiana
41.346
726.915
857.089
539
Maine
31,776
626.915
871
Arizona ..
113.916
9,658
Maryland
11,184
760.894
820
Colorado
104,500
39.864
399
Massachusetts
7,800
1,457.951
1,606
Dakota
147.490
14,181
Michigan®
56.451
1,184.059
1,334,031
2,235
District of Columbia
60
131.700
Minnesota
83.531
439,706
598,429
1.612
Idaho ..
90.932
14.999
Missouri
65,850
1.721,295
2,580
New Mexico
121,201
91.874
375
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