The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1854-01-30
Census of Toledo.
Census of Toledo.
The returns Of the census taken ON the 1st
inst, show the following result
Jan. |, 1853. Jan. l, Is
Total,
6412


months. June l, 1850, the population OF
the city was 1870. Gain in years 7 months,
1927, OR ll98 per cent.
rapid growth as this, since the last federal
census, though all the most prominent ones
have grown beyond all former precedent
Cleveland and Ohio City have together in
creased from 23,406 to al .2ll-a gain of 76
per cent Cleveland alone has increased
from l7,04l to 3l,2l9-equal to 83a per cent.
Detroit 1--WE have not the precise returns by
us) has added about IS per cent. to its pop
ulation, and Chicago 1924. 1t is but justice,
however, as between the two cities last nam
ed, to state that Chicago has in the mean
time annexed portion of contiguous terri
tory, with considerable population, while in
thy suberbs of Detroit, in what properly be-
longs to the city, are some 5000 people not
taken into the account of the city census.
Taking these 5000 into account, its growth
has probably been roportionately more rap
id-perhaps equal to rs per cent.
1t is proper to state that the census of To-
ledo has been taken month later than that
of Chicago, and two months later than that
of Detroit and Cleveland; but the advantage
in this is in their favor. In town so large
proportion of whose business is CONNER
cial, the close of navigation always drives
to the country for employment proportion
of its laboring population, and particularly
if, as is now the case here, public works in
the immediate vicinity create an active de-
mand for their labor. But taking the addi-
tional time into account will vary the gene
raj result but trile. The growth of Tole-
do will still appear to have been some l3 per
cent. in advance of that of Chicago. This
is giving Chicago the benefit of the popula-
ton annexed since 1850.
But not only has Toledo grown more rap
idly than any of the other Lake cities since
1850, but its increase has been much faster
than that of any Of them at the same period
cago, commencing with population of 4479,
had growth equal to a duplication once in
little over 81 years. Detroit, numbering
1922 in 1880, doubled its population during
the next decade equal to once in 4a years,
and from 1910 to 1850, once in years. St..
Louis, commencing with 1898 in 1920, only
grew to 1852 in 1880, and from then to 1910
increased equal to duplication once in Z
years. Cleveland, with 607l inhabitants in
1910, doubled in the next ten years equal to
once in about 81 years. Buffalo, with a
population of 2095 in 1920, doubled twice
in ten years. We have no census of Mil
waukie from the year 1910, when it num-
bered 100, to 1850, when it had reached
2O,06l, but commencing with its small basis
at the former period, its growth was little
less rapid than that of Toledo since 1850
being equal to duplication in about years
l0s months. That of Toledo has been equi-
valent to duplication every % years, and
there is more reason for believing now that
in % years more it will number II, 900 peo-
pie, than there was for expecting three years
ago the growth we have already witnessed.
Before those % years have expired, we
shall be receiving other benefits from rail
roads, besides those connected with their
passenger and freight traffic. Hitherto nei-
ther of our railroads have had either their
manufacturing or their repair shops at this
place, though here was where the business of
the roads required their location. Chicago,
and Cleveland, and Detroit, have reaped large
benefits from railroad manufactures, and so
will Toledo after the present year. The To-
cation here of the principal machine shops
of either of the new roads building to this
point, will be equivalent to adding 1900 to
our population, and we know of no interest
to induce any one of these companies to put
their shops at an inconvenient point.
The census taken does not include the vii
u" b; .I';r