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Milwaukee County

The city of Rochester, in Western New York, has often been referred to as having [been] increased more rapidly in wealth and population, than any other in the world-and perhaps she has been entitled to that distinction. Mr. O'Reilly, who has written a very valuable book entitled Sketches of Rochester and Western New York asks exultingly "where, in what place, through all the broad and fertile west, can there be shown any town which has surpassed Rochester in the permanent increase of population, business, and wealth?"- We may answer this question by making a little comparison.

Rochester was laid out in 1812, and
In 1816 or 4 years the population was 331
In 1820 or 8 years the population was 1500
Milwaukee was laid out in 1835, and in 1839 or 4 years the population was 1500.
or as much increase in four years as Rochester had in eight. But in 1843 or eight years, the population of Milwaukee was over 6,000; or four times as much as Rochester during the same period.