Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-12
MARRIAGE STATISTICS.
Figures Relating TO the Capers Of Cupid
Throughout the Stnte.

Figures Relating TO the Capers Of Cupid
Throughout the stnte.
rsprcfAL rELKeRAn TO THE DIsPArcH.i
HARRISBURG, June 1l.-Only 2 $50 marriages
were reported during the year. which repre-
sents only a small fraction of the actual num-
Der of marriages. The total number OF mar
riages reported for the past three years was
17,g72 and the ages of about 81, 600 of the con-
tracing parties were given. of the males
married during the year 81 are reported
as having married at 20 years OF
age; lot at 2l: 81 at %; 103 at %; 9s
at "a; so at 25; IA at 26; 60 at q; 81 at Is.
These figures show that of the males whose
ages are given II per cent married between the
age of 20 and % inclusive. OF the females So
were married at 20; $50 at 2l; 81 at q; IA at g.
81 at a. 81 at 25 SO at 26: "a at q; 23 at 2S; or
5S.3 per cent between the ages of 20 and Is In
elusive. Previous reports of A,728 marriages
indicated that 708 per cent of males married
during ages from 20to 2S inclusive, and that 6O.S
per cent of females married during same ages.
From compilation of the returns received
since the creation of the bureau of the number
married between the ages Of IL and 10 the
following figures are taken: Two males
were married at 16 and 80 at II, while
the greatest ages given of the males was SO.
There was marriage at s6, at S. at 81, at
70 and 8 at 49, Of the females ! IS reported as
having married at 13. 20 at IA, 137 at Is. while
the most advanced age Of females given was IL,
and only at that age. The returns for this
year indicate remarkable disparities in the ages
of contracting parties. One male of % was
married to female of 18 another male OF 81
married female of 65. while one male aged q
married female of "A. OF the males 17,469
persons, whose ages have been reported to the
bureau 455 married after having reached the
age of so, and 803 before arriving at the age
Of q.
OF the 7,46e females, only 165 married after
reaching 80 years, while 6 AIS married under the
age of 2l Of the females, 585 married at 20 2454
at 2l, and l. 782 at %. 1t is q somewhat remark.
able fact that IA per cent of the females mar
ried at 2l. while the total number married after
Practically the same percentage of males mar
ried at Il as at o. The average age at which
females married last year was R9S, and males
at 2Z.045. Previous reports show the average OF
the females to be 23.04 and the males N.04 OF
the II, ,972 marriages consummated during the
past three years, there were 16 1863 in which both
parties resided in Pennsylvania, 575 in which
the male was resident of another State, 140 In
which the female was q resident of another
State, las in which both parties were residents
of other States. Four males and three females
residing in foreign countries have intermarried
with residents of Pennsylvania, but the records
do not show that any females born In Pennsyl-
vania have intermarried with residents of other
countries. One hundred and thirty-one Amer
ican-born males married foreign-born females;
401 American-born females married foreign
born males; 659 marriages are reported In which
both parties were foreign, and 1,7O2 in which
both were American born. One hundred and
of color, and two between colored men and
white women. There were 85 marriages In
which one Of the parties had been previously
divorced.