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| | Meigs County, Ohio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) |
 | | Ohio was admitted into the Union in 1802 and was comprised of the portion of the Northwest Territory on its eastern boundary, extending from the Ohio River on the south to the shores of Lake Erie on the north, a total of seventeen million five hundred thousand acres of good land. |
 | | Meigs County, named from Return J. Meigs, elected Governor of Ohio in 1810, was formed from Gallia and Athens, April 1, 1819. |
 | | Population of Meigs in 1820, 4,480; 1830, 6,159; 1840, 11,455; 1860, 26,534; 1880, 32,325, of whom 24,481 were born in Ohio; 1,554, Virginia; 1,101, Pennsylvania; 230, New York; 118, Kentucky; 88, Indiana; 1,148, German Empire; 780, England and Wales; 178, Ireland; 69, Scotland; 30, France; and 26, British America. |
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