A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States / From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848

by George T. Flom

TABLE I

Showing the growth and distribution of the foreign Scandinavian factor by decades in the Northwestern states and in sections elsewhere

		1850	1860	1870	1880	1890		1900
Michigan		139	898	5,276	16,445	41,496		40,928
Wisconsin		8,885	23,265	48,057	66,284	99,738		103,942
Illinois		3,631	12,073	44,570	65,414	128,897		144,812
Iowa		611	7,814	31,177	46,046	72,873		72,611
Minnesota		12	11,773	58,837	107,768	215,215		236,670
Nebraska			323	3,987	16,685	46,341		40,107
North Dakota South Dakota			129	1,674	17,868		31,372 34,216	33,473 42,578
Total in Northwest		13,278	56,275	193,578	336,511	670,148		715,121
New England		749	1,507	3,113	11,243	43,606		70,632
New York New Jersey Pennsylvania		1,897	4,506	12,291	28,492	75,331		105,641
The South[1]		1,084	1,531	3,189	4,081	5,936		7,646
All other states		1,067	8,763	29,497	59,935	138,328		166,525
Total outside Northwest		4,797	16,307	48,090	103,741	263,201		350,444
Total		18,075	72,582	241,668	440,252	933,349		1,065,565

[1] Not including Missouri.

TABLE II

Showing the growth of the Norwegian foreign-born population in each state by decades in 1850

	1850	1860		1870	1880	1890		1900
Maine	12	27		58	99	311		509
New Hampshire	2	5		55	79	251		295
Vermont	8	34			10	38		54
Massachusetts	69	171		302	639	2,519		3,335
Rhode Island	25	38		22	56	285		342
Connecticut	1	22		72	168	529		709
New York	392	539		975	2,185	8,602		12,601
New Jersey	4	65		90	229	1,317		2,296
Maryland	10	7		17	108	164		246
Delaware	6					14		49
District of Columbia	1			5	19	70		101
Pennsylvania	27	83		115	381	2,238		1,393
Virginia	5	8		17	29	102		123
West Virginia	1				3	7		19
North Carolina	4			5	10	13		21
South Carolina	4			5		23		49
Florida	17	11		16	79	179		235
Georgia	6	13		14	23	88		155
Alabama	3	51		21	24	47		159
Tennessee	14			37	25	41		141
Kentucky	18	10		16	21	120		34
Mississippi	8	15		78	56	54		74
Louisiana	64	63		76	7	136		189
Arkansas	1	5		19	33	60		123
Missouri	155	146		297	373	526		530
Ohio	18	19		64	178	511		639
Indiana	18	38		123	182	285		384
Illinois	2,415	4,891		11,880	16,970	30,339		29,979
Michigan	110	440		1,516	3,520	7,795		7,582
Wisconsin	8,651	21,442		40,046	49,349	65,696		61,575
Iowa	361	5,688		17,554	21,583	27,078		25,634
Minnesota	7	8,425		35,940	62,521	101,169		104,895
Kansas	223			588	1,358	1,786		1,477
Nebraska	506				2,010	3,632		2,833
South Dakota			129	1,179	13,245		19,257	19,788
North Dakota							25,773	30,206
Wyoming	28				74	345		378
Colorado	12			40	354	893		1,149
Oklahoma	36							118
Texas	326			403	880	1,313		1,356
Arizona	7				45	59		123
Utah	613				1,214	1,854		2,128
Nevada	80				119	69		50
Idaho	61				276	741		1,173
New Mexico	2			5	17	42		33
California	715			1,000	1,765	3,702		5,060
Oregon	43			76	574	2,271		2,789
Washington	104				580	8,324		9,891
Montana	88				174	1,957		3,354
Total	12,407	43,695		114,246	181,696	302,721		335,726

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