[10] Though Norway’s participation in the Universal Exposition at St. Louis in 1904 as regards number of exhibits was limited, its exhibits were acknowledged to be of very high grade, thus in its tapestries, in carved and inlaid work, in silver and enamel displays it received the highest awards. Report by Consul Fr. Waage, General Commissioner to the St. Louis Exposition, Skandinaven, June 14th, 1905.
[11] Mostly in recent years.
[12] In the early period chiefly.
[13] The figures here are for the period closing with 1890 before which year Russia had furnished very few emigrants to the United States.
[14] The four last named countries have, as we know, in the last decade entered very extensively into the emigration movement.
[15] Or 28,000 according to Norwegian statistics.
[16] This includes also fishermen and foresters.
[17] Outside of Chicago, Illinois had in 1840 a population of 142,210; Wisconsin was organized as a Territory in 1836, its population in 1840 was 30,945; Iowa had a population of only 192,212 in 1850; and Minnesota, organized at a Territory in 1849, had in 1850, 1,056 inhabitants. To the square mile the population of each was in 1850: Illinois, 15.37; Wisconsin, 5.66; Iowa, 3.77; Minnesota, .04.
[18] The Vinland voyages in the 11th–14th centuries do not come within the scope of our discussion.
[19] It seems that this city was so named by the colonists after the city of Bergen, Norway.