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��Toiv7i and City Histories.

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��Table Showing the Growth of United States Cities FROM 1800 TO 18S0.

�� �1800.

�1820.

�1830.

�1840.

�Population of the United States.

�5.308,483

�9,633,822

�12,866,020

�17,069,453

�Cities.

�Aggregate Population.

�Per cent, to

Total Population.

�2 =

n .2

�Per cent, to

Total Population.

�« .2

60 -i


 * ^ Ph

�Per cent, to

Total Population.

�Aggregate Population.

�Per cent, to

Total Poptilation.

�10,000 to 49>999-

50,000 to 99,999.

100,000 to 499,999.

Over 300,000.

�161,134

24,945

60,989

104,113

�•03 .0047 .011 .019

�214,270

43.997 186,293 194,683

�.021 .0046 .019 .02

�316,360

83,960

278,067

289,980

�.025 .0065 .021 .0223

�461,671 150,682 504,016 447,078

�.027 .0088 .029 .025

�Grand total.

�351.181

�.06S

�639,243

�.069

�968,367

�■075

�1,363,487

�.091

�� �I850.

�I860.

�1870.

�ISSO.

�Population of the United States.

�23.191

�876

�31.433.321

�38,558,371

�50,15s.

�783

�Cities.

�Aggregate Population.

�Per cent, to

Total Population.

�n .2

< Ph

�Per cent, to

Total Population.

�I i

60 •—

60 "3 60 0.

�Per cent, to

Total Population.

�n 60 -S V. 3. bo =

bo a.

�Per cent, to

Total Population.

�10,000 to 49.999-

50,000 to 99.999-

100,000 to 499.999-

Over 500,000.

�990,080 314.182

933,039 763,724

�.043 .013 .04 ■033

�1,654,183

446,57s 1,483,472 1,750,020

�.032 .014 .047

•05s

�2,526,432

676,990

2,302,961

2,311,410

�.066 .017

-039 .06

�3,479,658

947,918

3,087,592

3.123,317

�.069 .019 .06 .062

�Grand total.

�3,001,023

�•13

�5,334,250

�-17

�7.817.793

�.20

�10,638,485

�.21

��The city is not only the growing centre of a growing nation — it is also the centre of all intellectual growth. The city is the home of the bar, the hospital, the press, the church, and the state. The city is the outcome of civilization, for it is the product of

��commerce and manufactures, and these mean civilization.

Then if any history be of value, if the record of the past be of any use in guiding the present and helping toward the future, surely the history of the city is the most important of all history.

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