The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-29
SWEDEN LEADER
IN FOREIGN BORN
HIGHEST PERCENTAGE IN STATE
CENSUS FIGURES.
Counting in the Second Generation,
However, the German Element Is the
Largest Single Factor-Heaviest For
eign Element About Head Of the
Lakes-Finland Gain Heavy.

"Nativity facts" appended to the
statement of the state census bureau,
printed in yesterdays Journal show
that Swedish born are the largest for
eign element, numbering $50 per cent
of the states total population. The
the Norwegian 5.64 per cent, and
the Canadian.born 2.4\per cent. The
Norway-born lead in twenty-nine coun-
ties, the German born in twenty
and the Sweden-born in twenty-five
counties.
The state census has taken no account
of the "native-born of foreign pa
! rents. - Including these, the German
nationality is by far the largest in the
state. In the federal census Of 1900
= the nationalities counting both the for
, eign parents, were divided as follows:
Germans, 472,275; Norwegiians, 362,-
! $40; swedes, 541 ,467; Canadians, 49,
$40; Irish, 114,053; Danes, 49,207; En-
glish, 1864; Bohemians, 1888; Poles,
37,491; Scotch, 20,2l4; Russians, TO-
344; Austrians,, 1857; French, 5,731;
Welsh, $685.. .. |'
The ratio Of foreign-born to this to
tai gives a basis for, estimating the
foreign-born and the native-born of
|
ton of family size as obtained five
years ago, the different Municipalities
for both first and second generations
number as follows for Minnesota:
Germans, 493,268; Norwegians, 1885,,
057; Swedes, 373,S01; Canadians, 14l,
S22; Irish, 9e,31S; Danes, 1920; En-
glish, 45,49S.
The gain in the past five years has
been 9:a6 per cent for the Swedish 81
born, ga per cent for the Norwegian
born, 2.44 per cent for the German
born, 1913 per cent for the Austrian
born, and S5.1 per cent for those bor1
in Finland.
New Arrivals in Hennepin.
Henrepin county gained $3.50 Swed
ishborn residents in the fve( years
1856 Norwegian-bor and LOO Ger
man-born. Ramsey county gained 2,90'
1896 Norwegian-born st. Louis coun
ty gained 1907 Swedish-born and 2,24
Norwegian born.
The principal Swedish gains in tn
five years were in Aitkin county, 34z
or 35 per cent; Carlton, 533 or SO pc
cent; ftasca, 1877 or 800 per cent, an
Lake 408, or 40 per cent. The princ5
pal Norwegian gains were in Red LAX
county, S86 or Is per cent: and i
OOoedu, coo VI ~ POI Ccut. lno S"CI
isd-born constitute 34.4 per cent Of tn
population of Isanti county, 2S per cen
of Chisago, and 1858 per cent Of Kar
aabec county.
g Olmsted county has the smallest ple1
centage of foreign-born in the state
and Lake county the largest. The fol
7 eign-born population is less than 2
q per cent in the following counties:
Olmsted, 15.1; Dodge, 16:6; Hubbard
17.2; Faribault, 1874; Stearns, 1876
Todd. 1877; Cass, 1873; LIE Sueur, 1873
Pipestone, 1872; Rice, 1913. .~.> ~.ss~,~
r The foreign-born constitute over 8
o pei. cent: In the following counties;
b - Lake county, so; St. Louis, As Kit
n son, Ais; Carlton, 41.l;s Cook, :4o.e
J. Roseau, 37.1; Isanti, 1874; Marshal
d 96.8; Kanabec, $40; Chisago, 34.e
Itasca. 34.7; Clearwater, "a; Pine, 33.s
n Polk, S2:4; Clay, 3O.6; Kandiyohi, 81
It Aitkin, 800.