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HISTORY

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nine hundred acres." The population of the whole township at this time was 7,554. Five hundred and four votes were cast at the first village election, the officers chosen being: President, William Radford; Trustees, William C. Waring, Jacob Read, Lemuel W. Wells, Thomas ( ). Partington, Reuben W. Van Pelt, and Fielding S. Cant; Clerk, William II. Post; Treasurer, John M. Stillwater; Collector, Lyman F. Bradley. The settlement of Mount Vernon unquestionably operated materially to intercept the natural growth of New Rochelle after the opening of the New Haven Railroad. As the first important stopping place on that road above Fordham, and as a long established, beautifully located, and eminently substantial community. New Rochelle would naturally have drawn to itself a very considerable element of the large numbers of New York people who sought homes in Westchester County after the completion of the railways, had it not been for the organization of the new village, which offered superior advantages to most persons of that class. Thus the immediate progress of New Rochelle was effectually retarded. The growth of the township in the ten years from 1845 to 1855 did not compare with that of West Farms, Eastchester, Yonkers, or Greenburgh, being only 1,021. The population of the township in 1830 was 1,271; in 1S35, 1,201; in 1810, 1,816; in 1815, 1,977; in 1850, 2,518; in 1855, 3,101.