The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-08

| fame belonged TO that racc They can
also claim Col, Robert Anderson, who
held Fort Sumpter at the breaking out
of the Civil war; Admiral Dahlgren and
the late Secretary Thomas f. Bayard OF
Delaware. They have always been very
patriotic and the records of the police
courts and jails rarely have a Swedish
name on their pages. The total number
! of Swedcs. both foreign born and chill
dren of foreign parentage, now in the
United States is nearly 100000.
While the Swedes have come 10
| America IN greater numbers, the Danes
| and the Norwegians have had quite an
important part in the making up of
our composite national type. The Danes
were IN Manhattan as early as the
Dutch. and il is an interesting fact
! that the burial ground about Trinity
church, overlooking Wall street, was
first dedicated as "God 5 acre III
1904, when the Danes built n little
church there. which was presided over
by minister from Denmark. The first
Lutheran minister to hold service in
America was Master Aarhus, who ac.
companied the ill-fatcd expedition to
Hudson bay in 1919, and met his death
amid the SHOWS of his first winter in
what he called <fNova Dania.' The
considerable Danish settlements in the
United States today are in Idaho and
Utah Many of them are intcrsperscd
with other Scandlnayians throughout
the great Northwest, Jacob Ris Jour
nalist, author and educator. is perhaps
the most eminent American who is q
native of Denmark.
The carly connection of the Norwc-
gians with America goes back to the
time Of Left Erikson and Erik the Rcd.
1t was the latter who discovered the
ice bound land of Greenland. In after
years, when pressed for a reason for
giving this cold barren country such Il
misleading name he said IT was because
he hoped such a nice name might at
tract settlers Erik may safely be
called the first progenItor of the COM
mon species now known MS the real es-
tate boomer, and his naming of Green
land the first attempt al real estate
boom on tins hemisphere.
One of the bravest sailors in the Con-
tincntal navy in our war for indcpen-
dencc was Thomas Johnson, n Norwe-
giun He helped John Paul Jones lash
the Bon lIomme Richard 10 the Scraps,
and was the last survivor of that mem
orable battle He died in Philadelphia
in 1851 at the age of 80, proud with
his last breath of the memory that he
had been personally thanked by George
Washington for his bravery
Knute Nelson. 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 Norway rcgainc1
her separate establishment as an indie
pendent kingdom, there were 4OO,OOO
citizens of the United States who paid
sentimental allegiance TO Haakon VII,
the new ruler over the country which
gave them birth,
The Welsh are not so numerous as
other northern European races in Amer
lea. but they have contributed much
to the history of the country. Their
industry, morality, religious nature. and
general department have always made
them desirable citizens. They settled
IN Philadelphia in the earliest colonial
times, and another colony in the Mari
borough district of South Carolina sent
an entire company under Marion to the
Revolutionary war. Among the slgners
Of the Declaration OF independence VINO
trace back Immediately or remotely to
Welsh ancestors, were Thomas -Ieffer-
son, Stephen Hopkins, William Will
liams. William Floyd. Francis Lewis,
Button Bwynett, Lewis Morris and
Robert Morris Our Presidents of
Welsh ancestry were John Adams,
Thomas jefferson, James Madison,
James Monroe. John Quincy Adams,
William Henry Harrison, James X. Gar
field, and Benjamin Harrison,
One family of Welsh origin which
has become particularly famous in the
history of American education, letters,
and statccraft. is that of Jonathan Ed
who was the son of parents born
in Wales. He was known as the fore
most philosophical writer of the day.
He as the third president of the Uni
versity Of New Jersey, now known as
Princeton, and of his descendants four
teen have been presidents Of colleges.
His grandson, Aaron Burr, was vice
president of the United States, and the
central figure in the most dramatic in
cidcnt of the carly days of the Repub-
tic. Winston Churchill, the American
author, is another of Jonathan Ed
wards descendants. as is also Mrs.
Theodore Roosevelt, Three presidents
Of Yale were in n direct line from the
head of this family, and Nicholas Muir
ray Butler Of Columbia University is
another Of them who ranks among the
leading educators of the nation.
Chief Justic Marshall and Taney had
Welch ancestors, and Lewis, of the ia"
nous Lewis and Clarke expedition, |
,ame of good Welsh stock, Capt. Jones,
commander of the Maynower, was a
proud member of this race The Welsh
also claim Anthony Morris, first mayor
IF Philadelphia, and Thomas Lloyd,
first governor of Pennsylvania. They
are not so clannish a people as other
Americans, though they have
many societies for benevolent and his !
iorical work, the oldest of these being
he Welsh society of Philadelphia,
which WAS founded in $500. The Welsh !
rave legendary claim of early settle. |
neDt of America dating back AS far /
is 1liO. when one Mndswgap Owain /
iwyncdd crossed the ocean with ten
hips. The authenticity of the claim is /
shaken, however, by the fact that moth.
ng was ever heard of the advcnturer
md his colony after they left the
hores of Wales.
Prior to 1868 the Slavs were com.
,arativcly unknown as cmbrvo Amer.
can citizens. but large numbers of Aus.
rians, Russians, Poles Czechs, Rohe.
mans and Moravians arc now Gockino
Al