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| | Lorain County, Ohio |
 | | Lorain County was formed December 26, 1822, from Huron, Cuyahoga and Medina. |
 | | Population of Lorain in 1830, 5,696; 1840, 18,451; 1860, 29,744; 1880, 35,526, of whom 22,448 were born in Ohio; 2,717 York; 668 Pennsylvania; 225 Virginia; 115 Indiana; 99 Kentucky; 2,819 in German Empire; 1,759 England and Wales; 767 Ireland; 458 British America; 172 Scotland; 76 France, and 33 Sweden and Norway. |
 | | Elyria, county seat of Lorain, twenty-six miles southwest of Cleveland, 110 miles northeast of Columbus, on the C. and W. and L. and M. Railroads, is the centre of an agricultural district, dairying |
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