The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-03-08

the United states is foreign-born, and
per cent more Of our citizens are the
ndren OF foreign-born parents. Among
voters at the last general election
ere were over 100000 naturalized Amer
ans and 100000 more aliens We're await
the due process OF law which would
We them the same privileges at an early
te. New York now has half as many
srmans as there are in Berlin. twice IS
any Irishmen as Dublin, almost as many
VS. rs there are i'm Warsaw. and half
many Italians as there are IN Rome.
licago has more Germans than Dresden,
q half as many Syandinavians as Stock
I'm a fourth of the population of Min
sofa is Scandinavian.
rhe Swedes are said to become AmcUi-
nized quicker than the people of any
her race The first members of this
.tionality who came here settled in Del
JaTe and Pennsylvania, but their great
inter- IS now ia the Northwest. Between
early fifties and the late nineties over
O0,00 of them came TO this country.
ley brought with them their national
araCteristiCs of honesty, truthfulness'
1ustry, and frugality, and they have
on a potent factor in the agricultural
industrial development Of the nation.
icy are not politicians, and IL Is rare
ing TO hear Of one of them being elected
office. Notable instances to the contrary,
wever. are John e Johnson. governor
Minnesota. who was born OF Swedish
rents. and John Lind. former governor
that State, who was born in Sweden
the law they have Alex Chytraus.
Ige of the Superior Court of Chicago,
d Harry Olson, state attorney Of Iili-
is. In art they have Olaf Grafstrom,
ldscape painter. and Henry ReuJerdahI,
C. famous marine sketcher. Alex Olson
Carl Nilsson are two of their best
own sculpt0rs. The American Swedes
int more magaZints and periodicals in
cir adopted tongue than do any other
opie of foreign birth or descent. They
We over 60 trained singers at their
5tlval which is held every four Years.
J. y. OckersOn, United States commits
,ner for Mississippi river improvements.
Swede. as are A. r. Johnson, general
anager of the northumberland
.e, and John Ericsson, city treasurer of
hcago. The name Ericsson has won dis
'ction in Swedish-AmeTica already, for
e famous Capt John Ericsson of Moni-
fame, belonged to that race. They
also claim Col Robert Anderson
10 held Fort Sumter at the breaking out
the civil war; Admiral Dahlgreu, ana
e. late Secretary Thomas +. Bayard, OF
Delaware. They have always been very
patriotic, and the records Of the police
courts and jails rarely have Swedish
name on their pages The total number
IF Swedes. both foreigu-born and chill
Iren Of foreign parentage, now in the
United States is nearly 100000
While the Swedes have come TO America
q greater numbers. the Danes and the
Iorwegians have had quite an important
part in the making up of our composite
rational type. The Danes were in Man
rattan as early as the Dutch. and it is
IN interesting fact that the burial ground
bout Trinity Church. overlooking Wall
street. was first dedicated as Gods acre"
n 1904. when the Danes built little
hurch there which was presided over by
minister from Denmark. The first
lutheran minister 70 hold a service in
America was Master Aarhus, who ac-
the Inflated expedition to
Hudson Bay I'm 1919, and met his death
amid the SHOWS of his first winter in
What he called Nova Dania.' The con-
siderable Danish settlements i'm the
nited States to-day are i'm Idaho and
tab. Many of them are iuterspeTsed
With other SCandinayians throughout the
great Northwest Jacob Riis journalist.
author, and educator. is perhaps the most
eminent American who is a native Of
Denmark
The early connection OF the Norwegians
with America goes hack TO the time OF
-eif EriksoH and Erik the Red. 1t was
he latter who discovered the iCe-bOund
and Of Greenland. In after years. when
pressed for "a reason for giving this cold,
barren country such a misleading name,
be said 10 was because he hoped such a
nice name might attract settlers. Erik
may safely be called tho first progenitor
81 the common species now known as the
real estate boomer, and his naming of
Greenland the first attempt at a real
state boom on this hemisphere.
one of the bravest sailors in the Con-
mental navy I'm our war FOR independence
Vas Thomas Johnson, "a Norwegian. He
helped John Paul Jones lash the Bon
HIomme Richard TO the Scraps, and was
he last survivor Of that memorable bat
lie. He died in Philadelphia in 1871. at
the age of ninety-three. proud with his
asst breath of the memory that be had
been personally thanked by George
Washington for his bravery. Kuutc Mel
son, one of the United States Senators
from Minnesota, was born in Norway.
and IS a representative of the hardy race
which adapts itself TO conditions in this
country with so little friction. When Nor
way regained her separate establishment
is an Independent kingdom, there We're
10000 citizens of the United States who
paid sentimental allegiance 10 Haakon
II, the new ruler over the country which
gave them birth.
The Welsh are not so numerous as
lther Northern European races in Amer
ca, but they have contributed much to
he history of the country. Their indus
ny, morality, religious nature. and gem
'ral department have always made them
desirable citizens. They settled in Phila-
ieiphia in the earliest colonial times, and
mother colony i'm the Marlborough dis
rict Of South Carolina sent an entire
under Marion TO the RevoIu-
ionary war. Among the signers of the
Declaration of Independence who trace
pack Immediately or remotely 10 Welsh
ancestry were Thomas jefferson, Stephen
Hopkins. William Williams. William
floyd, Francis Lewis. Button Gwynett.
.ewis Morris, and Robert Morris Our
Presidents Of Welsh ancestry were John
Adams, Thomas jefferson, James Madi-
on. James Monroe. John Quincy Adams,
William Henry Harrison. James A. Gar
:cld and Benjamin Harrison.
one family Of Welsh origin which has
become particularly famous In the his