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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1873
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207 six between 30 and 40; ten between 20 and 30 ; and one—Ford—has only 19 inhabitants to the section 5 whilst Iroquois and Jasper have but 22. The whole State averages about 45 inhabitants to the square mile, or one for every fourteen acres of land. We are not over populated. The territory of which Illinois is composed has contained, at different eras, the following POPULATION : 1800 1810 1820 1830 18,40 3850 1860 1870 2,458 12,282 55,162 157,445 476,183 851,470 1,711,951 2,539,891 ' Most notable in this great increase of population is the decade 1850-60. " So large a population,77 said Superintendent Kennedy, in his preliminary report, "more than doubling itself, in ten years,, by the regular course of settlement and natural increase, is without a parallel.77 Of the population of 1870, 2,511,096 were whites, 28,762 free colored persons, one Chinese, and thirty-two Indians. The counties containing more than 1,000 free colored persons, were the following : Adams Alexander Cook Madison Pulaski Randolph Sangamon St. C l a i r . . . . . 1,567 2,296 3,858 2,214 2,394 1,137 1,166 1,297 : Considerably more than half the colored population is concentrated in these eight counties. The solitary Chinaman is accredited to Morgan, and Pope has eleven of the thirty-two Indians. Looking to nativity and foreign parentage, we find that we have 2,024,693 native, against 515,198 foreign born inhabitants 5 or, speaking in general terms, one person in five is of foreign birth. Nearly as many more were of foreign parentage on one or both sides, making nearly two in five of our population foreign qr of foreign parentage. The counties having exceeding 10,000 foreign born inhabitants are: Cook Henry Kane L a Salle Madison Peoria St. Clair Will 166,772 10,278 10, 336 16,262 12, 880 11,673 18, 321 14,587 About half the foreign born population is found in these eight counties, the ratio of foreign born to native population being largest in Cook.
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