Approximately 13,970 Westchester County Residents Lived in the Area Annexed by New York City in 1895

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While researching other Pelham-related issues, I recently ran across a fascinating tidbit in a tiny reference published in the August 25, 1900 issue of the New-York Tribune. In a lengthy item detailing growth of the population of the Bronx, there is a brief reference to an estimate of the number of Westchester County residents (including Pelham residents) who lived within the area annexed by New York City at the time of annexation. I have excerpted the pertinent information from the material below.

"BRONX POPULATION INCREASE.

THAT BOROUGH SHOWS A GROWTH OF 127 PER CENT IN LAST DECADE.

To the Editor of The Tribune.

Sir: Herewith I send you a statement in regard to the population of New-York City, which I am ready to verify and which I think ought to be published in justice to the Borough of The Bronx, as showing the great increase in its population:

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BOROUGH OF THE BRONX.

In 1890 the territory now known as the Borough of The Bronx consisted of the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth wards of the city and county of New-York, and the town of West Chester, part of the town of East Chester and part of the town of Pelham of the county of Westchester. In 1890 the Eleventh Census showed the population of the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth wards of the city and county of New-York to be 74,085, and that portion of Westcchester above mentioned, and which was annexed to the city and county of New-York in 1895 and made a part of the Borough of The Bronx in 1898, to be as nearly as can be approximated 13,970, making a total of 88,085 in the territory now known as the Borough of The Bronx. The census of 1900 gives the population of the Borough of The Bronx as 209,507. The numerical increase during the decade is 112,452, or 127.70 per cent.

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JAMES L. WELLS.
No. 141 Broadway, New-York, Aug. 21, 1900."

Source: Bronx Population Increase, New-York Tribune, Aug. 25, 1900, p. 12, col. 2.

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