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Dodge County

So named in honor of General Henry Dodge, first Governor of Wisconsin and now Delegate to Congress, is bounded on the north by Fond du Lac, on the east by Sheboygan and Washington, on the south by Milwaukee and Jefferson, and on the west by Dane and Portage counties. It is five townships or thirty miles square, embracing townships numbered nine to thirteen in ranges number thirteen to seventeen all inclusive. Its area is nine hundred square miles or five hundred seventy six thousand acres. Dodge was set off from Brown county in 1836 and organized as a separate county in 1840, and is to be organized and for judicicial purposes in 1844. In 1838 it had a population amounting to eighteen, and in 1842 it has increased to 149; but such has been the rapid settlement of the county that the population is now estimated at one thousand.

In 1840 there were in Dodge county 40 horses, 150 meat cattle, 105 swine, and the produce of the preceeding year is stated to

180