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from 1850 to 1870. They scattered all over the county, but 

 massed principally in the towns of Brighton and Wheatland. 

 6. That the foreign nationality predominated in Brighton in 

 1860. 



Kenosha county 

 Kenosha city .. 



Brighton 



Bristol 



Paris 



Pike-Somers . . . 

 Pleasant Prairie 



Randall 



Salem 



Southport 



Wheatland 



30.9 

 31.6 

 40.7 

 17.1 

 39.3 

 31.3 

 33.3 

 21.7 

 25.7 



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39.2 



Note.— For the total number of native and foreign born in the county and 

 towns for the three years, see Table 2, Appendix. 



To further show the distribution of the foreign and native 

 population in the county and towns, Table 2 was made by con- 

 sidering all born within the United States as native, and all 

 born outside as foreign, for the three years 1850, 1860 and 

 1870. Taking the percentages of the native and foreign bom 

 in each to^\Ti for each of the three years, and comparing them 

 with the percentages of the native and foreign born of the en- 

 tire county for the same years, one readily sees that in 1850 

 the towns of Bristol, Salem, Southport, and Wheatland were 

 settled mainly by native born. In the towns of Somers, then 

 Pike, and the city of Kenosha, the native born were about the 

 same as the county average, the former being a little above and 

 the latter a little below. In the towns of Brighton, Pleasant 

 Prairie, and Paris, the percentage of native born falls below 

 that of the entire county, which indicates strongly the presence 

 of a large foreign element in these towns. In 1860 the per- 



