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These were: "Wayne, 32,267; Oakland, 30,288; "Washtenaw, 26,979, and Lenawee, 23,011. There were eight other counties with a population of 10,000 or upwards. This county of Ingham, against her population of 33,676 in 1880, then had but 5,267. Kent county in the intervening thirty-five years, from 1845 to 1880, has increased from 6,153 to 73,253; Shiawassee from 3,829 to 27,059. My adopted county of Tuscola, which at that time had no existence except as a wolfish appendage of Saginaw, has grown to 25,738 in 1880, and to-day has at least 30,000 inhabitants. Saginaw, whose waters now float the commerce of an empire, could then boast of hut 1,218 souls, while now, dissevered and divided into many counties, she would alone constitute a respectable state.
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