The Scandinavian Element in the United States / University of Illinois Studies in the Social Sciences, Vol. 111, No. 3, September, 1914

by Kendric Charles Babcock

Under each state the figures represent
(1) foreign born, corresponding to the figures given for 1850, 1870, and 1890
(2) native white of foreign parentage
(3) native white of mixed parentage

	Norway	Sweden	Denmark	Totals	Grand Total
Alabama	266	752	197	1,215
	114	481	105	700
	168	274	128	570	2,485
Arizona	272	845	284	1,401
	164	427	172	763
	106	302	246	654	2,818
Arkansas	76	385	178	639
	49	176	72	297
	77	374	198	649	1,585
California	9,952	26,210	14,208	50,370
	4,666	14,797	8,244	27,707
	2,528	5,464	4,043	12,035	90,112
Colorado	1,787	12,445	2,755	16,987
	1,421	9,681	1,894	12,996
	826	3,287	1,061	5,174	35,157
Connecticut	1,265	18,208	2,722	22,195
	499	14,508	1,845	16,852
	204	1,788	418	2,410	41,457
Delaware	38	332	52	422
	15	208	17	240
	12	85	19	116	778
Florida	303	728	295	1,326
	158	387	110	655
	303	412	161	876	2,857
Georgia	145	289	112	546
	56	153	33	242
	85	196	72	353	1,141
Idaho	2,566	4,985	2,254	9,805
	2,221	3,876	2,680	8,777
	1,289	2,124	2,532	5,945	24,527
Illinois	32,913	115,422	17,368	165,703
	26,572	94,830	11,551	132,953
	8,953	19,879	4,600	33,432	332,088
Indiana	531	5,081	900	6,512
	363	4,824	692	5,879
	299	1,896	582	2,777	15,168
Iowa	21,924	26,763	17,961	66,648
	30,392	28,859	17,814	77,065
	14,586	10,573	5,966	31,125	174,838
Kansas	1,294	13,309	2,759	17,362
	1,371	15,911	2,635	19,917
	1,031	6,411	1,822	9,264	46,543
Kentucky	53	190	78	321
	39	104	40	183
	40	148	96	284	788
Louisiana	294	344	239	877
	92	154	125	371
	252	438	392	1,082	2,330
Maine	580	2,203	929	3,712
	288	1,478	715	2,481
	218	627	340	1,185	7,378
Maryland	363	421	237	1,021
	144	209	88	441
	164	261	158	583	2,045
Massachusetts	5,432	39,560	3,403	48,395
	2,170	25,149	1,706	29,025
	768	3,759	963	5,490	82,910
Michigan	7,638	26,374	6,313	40,325
	6,778	25,624	6,055	38,457
	2,358	4,939	2,431	9,728	88,510
Minnesota	105,302	122,427	16,137	243,866
	126,549	118,083	15,430	260,062
	47,755	27,508	5,957	81,220	585,148
Mississippi	91	292	119	502
	32	178	51	261
	116	280	122	518	1,281
Missouri	660	5,654	1,729	8,043
	543	4,937	1,147	6,627
	537	2,936	1,380	4,853	19,523
Montana	7,169	6,410	1,943	15,522
	4,859	3,865	1,302	10,026
	1,914	1,527	696	4,137	29,685
Nebraska	2,750	23,219	13,673	39,643
	2,989	26,599	13,957	43,545
	1,968	8,668	4,932	15,568	98,755
Nevada	254	708	616	1,578
	107	293	393	793
	92	192	307	591	2,962
New Hampshire	491	2,068	131	2,690
	292	1,172	55	1,519
	69	316	69	454	4,663
New Jersey	5,351	10,547	5,056	20,954
	2,256	5,899	3,350	11,505
	745	1,902	1,261	3,908	36,367
New Mexico	151	365	116	632
	109	240	75	424
	71	144	91	306	1,362
New York	25,012	53,703	12,536	91,251
	10,171	29,284	5,006	44,461
	2,221	7,248	3,167	12,636	148,348
North Carolina	39	112	36	187
	13	36	13	62
	28	70	28	126	375
North Dakota	45,937	12,160	5,355	63,452
	56,577	10,533	5,043	72,153
	20,770	4,107	1,805	26,682	162,287
Ohio	1,109	5,522	1,837	8,468
	571	4,075	1,150	5,796
	351	1,458	808	2,617	16,881
Oklahoma	351	1,028	550	1,929
	425	943	518	1,886
	432	1,058	577	2,067	5,882
Oregon	6,843	10,099	3,215	20,157
	4,643	5,866	2,167	12,676
	1,949	2,233	1,391	5,573	38,406
Pennsylvania	2,317	23,467	3,033	28,817
	995	22,803	1,656	25,454
	651	5,415	1,261	7,327	61,598
Rhode Island	577	7,404	328	8,309
	230	5,174	153	5,557
	109	636	108	853	14,719
South Carolina	82	95	51	228
	19	20	9	48
	40	68	68	176	452
South Dakota	20,918	9,998	6,294	37,210
	27,803	9,640	6,396	43,839
	12,025	3,654	2,273	17,952	99,001
Tennessee	89	363	163	615
	74	237	87	398
	79	281	119	479	1,492
Texas	1,784	4,703	1,287	7,774
	1,649	4,724	844	7,217
	1,012	2,171	942	4,125	19,116
Utah	2,304	7,227	8,300	17,831
	1,562	5,906	10,169	17,637
	1,643	3,930	8,142	13,715	49,183
Vermont	102	1,331	172	1,605
	41	905	74	1,020
	32	185	68	285	2,910
Virginia	311	368	239	918
	222	215	140	577
	164	138	95	397	1,892
Washington	28,363	32,195	7,804	68,362
	18,486	18,244	4,988	41,718
	5,875	5,640	2,286	13,801	123,881
West Virginia	38	278	67	383
	10	196	51	257
	31	124	48	203	843
Wisconsin	56,999	25,739	16,454	99,192
	71,681	23,268	15,903	110,852
	29,020	6,379	5,958	41,357	251,401
Wyoming	623	2,497	962	4,082
	381	1,455	866	2,702
	245	598	521	1,364	8,148

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APPENDIX II

STATISTICS OF THREE MINNESOTA COUNTIES

From the U. S. Census Reports

Chisago County	1860	1870	1880	1890	1900
White population	1,729	4,358	7,982	10,359	13,248
White native-born	1,209	2,164	4,017	5,613	8,230
White foreign-born	734	2,194	3,965	4,746	5,018
White foreign Danish	——	14	50	67	55
White foreign Norwegian	——	1,674	3,160	50	69
White foreign Swedish	——	——	——	3,955	4,215
Acres in farms
Improved	3,468	8,004	31,198	43,476	85,277
Unimproved	18,484	34,593	72,595	101,649	129,501
Cash value of farms	$124,019	$477,720	$1,171,426	$2,563,630	$3,419,310
Fillmore County
White population	13,542	24,887	28,162	25,966	28,238
White native-born	9,045	15,178	19,243	19,034	22,378
White foreign-born	4,497	9,709	8,919	6,932	5,860
White foreign Danish	——	13	96	68	59
White foreign Norwegian	——	6,61	5,191	4,171	3,593
White foreign Swedish	——	——	——	66	53
Acres in farms
Improved	75,542	185,087	361,100	357,083	389,386
Unimproved	216,454	214,459	134,333	117,670	131,875
Cash value of farms	$1,844,797	$6,636,880	$9,535,815	$9,935,202	$14,240,595
Otter Tail County
White population	178	1,968	18,675	34,232	45,375
White native-born	178	888	11,249	20,884	30,988
White foreign-born	——	1,080	7,426	13,348	14,387
White foreign Danish	——	41	214	345	372
White foreign Norwegian	——	889	4,772	5,955	5,738
White foreign Swedish	——	——	——	2,470	3,038
Acres in farms
Improved	306	3,632	131,804	311,175	505,358
Unimproved	2,118	28,898	340,355	405,380	439,374
Cash value of farms	$17,550	$151,281	$3,650,223	$8,511,465	$12,478,640

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