The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-02-16

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the United States contains vast amount
of statistical information. The census was
taken as of June 1, 1900, and a verified
statement of the total population of the
United States and Territories, 76, 3O3, 1897, was
given out on Nov. q of that year The
tabulation, classification and analysis of
the various facts embraced in this simple
statement makes a large quarto volume of
over twelve hundred pages relating ex-
clusively to population. The tables in this
and Territory by each succeeding census;
the density Of population by States and
Territories from the first census to the
last; the population by counties and town.
ships; the city and rural populations; the
population by sex, nativity, color, native
or foreign parentage; the number of males
of voting age and of native or foreign birth,
by citizenship or years in the United States,
etc. Even this does not exhaust the sta
tistics relative to population, for Volume III
will relate to the ages of the entire popu-
lation in detail; school, militia and voting
ages; conjugal condition. school attend
ance; illiteracy; inability to speak English;
occupations and professions; dwellings and
families and ownership of homes. This
very inadequate outline will give some idea
of the scope and comprehensiveness of the
work. Some of the maps are instructive
One shows by district boundaries the origi-
nal territory of the United States IS de-
fined by the treaty of 17S3; Louisiana Ter
ritory purchased in 1903; Florida purchased
in 1919; Texas annexed in 1916; Oregon Ter
ritory, including Washington, undisputed
possession of which was acquired in 1916;
Mexican territory, including California, ac-
quired i'm 1913; the Gadsden purchase in
1853 Another map shows the decennial
western movement of the center of popu-
lation from 1890 to 1900, when it was located
a few miles southeast of Columbus, Ind.
other maps show the distribution of the
population of the entire country by the
last census. indicating the relative density
of the population in every State and Terri
tory; the proportion of urban to rural pop
ulation; the distribution of males and fe-
males, showing by colors where each sex
is in excess of the other; the foreign-born
population by States and Territories; the
negro population by States and Territories;
the proportion in each State of resident
natives Of native immigrants and of for
eign-born citizens. Some of these maps
show the relative conditions at each census
since 1890, while others show the existing
condition. Altogether, they furnish a wide
field Of study for historians and sociolo-
gists. Taking some points at random it
appears that the total population of In
diana in 1900 was 2,516,462 of whom 2,374,3
were natve-born and 1921 were foreign
born. The proportion of foreign-born citi-
zens in this State was less than in any
other central Western State. Ohio had
ASS. 794, Illinois $685. 47, Michigan 5H,653, and
Wisconsin 515.91. In the number of for
eign-born residents Indiana stood sixteenth
in the list of States. In this city, of total
population of 169,164, the native-born were
1902 and the foreign-born 17,122. Coming
to the question of color, Indiana had 2,45S,-
SOP white residents and 57.5O5 colored. The
proportion was 97.7 per cent. white to %
per cent. colored. This city had 153, POI
white residents and 1881 colored. OF the
entire population of Indiana 492,473 were
born in other States, of whom Ohio fur
nished much the largest number, Us, S44
Kentucky next. 1851; Illinois, IS 4S7; Penn
sylvania. 1886: New York 1885, and other
States less numbers. On the other hand.
natives of Indiana are found widely dis
tributed-12S,155 in Illinois; 29,S71 in Michi-
gan; 52,O45 in Ohio; TO- 761 in Minnesota; AS
O79 in Iowa; 70519 in Missouri; %, JAP in Ne
braska; $3.50 in Kansas; II, $50 in Texas;
1883 in Colorado; 1851 in Washington;
9.9A in Oregon; 1888 in California; 1885,
in Arkansas, and so on This list might
be considerably extended, but it shows that
Indiana has contributed largely to the pop
ulation of other States, and generally it is
presumed Of an enterprising class Of peo-
pie. In this city, of a total population OF
16s, 164, there were born in Indiana 104, S11
in other States, 47,2S1, and in foreign coun-
tries 1872. Few Northern cities have as
small a per cent. of foreign-born popula-
ton as this city, which is 1O1 per cent
! Cleveland has 1926 per cent, Toledo 211 pei
cent, Chicago S46 per cent, Minneapoli:
SO.1 per cent, st. Paul 2S.7 per cent. In
dianapolis is mainly a native American
and largely an Indiana city.