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| | Van Wert County, Ohio |
 | | Population of Van Wert in 1830, 39; 1840, 1,577; 1860, 10,238; 1880, 23,028; of whom 19,072 were born in Ohio; 888, Pennsylvania; 606, Indiana; 241, New York; 215, Virginia; 73, Kentucky; 768, German Empire; 329, England and Wales; 109, Ireland; 57, France; 45, British America; 9, Scotland; and 3, Norway and Sweden. |
 | | Van Wert in 1846.—Van Wert, the county-seat, is 136 miles northwest of Columbus, and was founded in 1837, by James Watson RILEY, Esq. |
 | | JAMES RILEY was the first white man who settled in Van Wert county; he moved his family into the forest, on the St. Mary’s river, in January, 1821, and began clearing up a farm and the erection of mills. |
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