The Scandinavian Element in the United States / University of Illinois Studies in the Social Sciences, Vol. 111, No. 3, September, 1914

APPENDIX I

Statistical Tables

TABLE I

STATISTICS OF IMMIGRANTS FROM DENMARK, NORWAY AND SWEDEN.

The number of alien passengers and immigrants from the Scandinavian countries arriving in the United States, 1820-1913, together with the total number of alien arrivals according to the statistics of the United States, and, where available, of the Scandinavian kingdoms. The figures from 1820-1840 are at best a safe minimum. The earlier figures reported by the Scandinavian kingdoms, given in round numbers, are probably estimates based upon partial data. See United States Reports of the Bureau of Commerce and Navigation, Annual Statistical Abstracts and the report of the Dillingham Commission (1911); SundbÄrg, Bidrag til UtvandringsfrÄgen frÄn Befolkningsstatistisk Synpunkt; Nelson, Scandinavians in the United States, I. 253-264c; Bulletin de l’Institute Internationale de Statistique, III, ii, 125-127; Statesman’s Year-Books, 1906-14.

UNITED STATES STATISTICS						EUROPEAN STATISTICS
	Denmark	Norway	Sweden	Total Scandinavians	Total Aliens	Denmark	Norway	Sweden	Total Scandinavians

1820	20	3		23	8,385	...	...		...
1821	12	12		24	9,127	...	1		1
1822	18	10		28	6,911	...	...		...
1823	6	1		7	6,354	...	...		...
1824	11	9		20	7,912	...	...		...
1825	14	4		18	10,199	...	53		53
1826	10	16		26	10,837	...	...		...
1827	15	13		28	18,875	...	...		...
1828	50	10		60	27,382	...	...		...
1829	17	13		30	22,520	...	...		...
1830	16	3		19	23,322	...	...		...

1820-1830	189	94		283	151,824	...	54		54


1831	23	13		36	22,633	...	...		...
1832	21	313		334	60,482	...	...		...
1833	173	16		189	58,640	...	...		...
1834	24	42		66	65,365	...	...		...
1835	37	31		68	45,374	...	...		...
1836	416	57		473	76,242	...	200		200
1837	109	290		399	79,340	...	200		200
1838	52	60		112	38,914	...	100		100
1839	56	324		380	68,069	...	400		400
1840	152	55		207	84,066	...	300		300

1831-40	1,063	1,201		2,264	599,125	...	1,200		1,200

1841	31	195		226	80,289	...	400		400
1842	35	553		588	104,565	...	700		700
1843	29	1,748		1,777	52,496	...	1,600		1,600
1844	25	1,311		1,336	78,615	...	1,200		1,200
1845	54	928		982	114,371	...	1,100		1,100
1846	114	1,916		2,030	154,416	...	1,300		1,300
1847	13	1,307		1,320	234,968	...	1,600		1,600
1848	210	903		1,113	226,527	...	1,400		1,400
1849	8	3,473		3,481	297,024	...	4,000		4,000
1850	20	1,569		1,589	369,980	...	3,700		3,700

1841-50	539	13,903		14,442	1,713,251	...	17,000		17,000

1851	14	2,424		2,438	379,466	...	2,640	934	3,574
1852	3	4,103		4,106	371,601	...	4,030	3,031	7,061
1853	32	3,364		3,396	368,645	...	6,050	2,619	8,669
1854	691	3,531		4,222	427,833	...	5,950	3,980	9,930
1855	528	821		1,349	200,877	...	1,600	586	2,186
1856	173	1,157		1,330	200,436	...	3,200	959	4,159
1857	1,035	1,712		2,747	251,306	...	6,400	1,762	8,162
1858	232	2,430		2,662	123,126	...	2,500	512	3,012
1859	499	1,091		1,590	121,282	...	1,800	208	2,008
1860	542	298		840	153,640	...	1,900	266	2,166

1851-60	3,749	20,931		24,680	2,598,212	...	36,070	14,857	50,927

1861	234	616		850	91,918	...	8,900	1,087	9,987
1862	1,658	892		2,550	91,985	...	5,250	1,206	6,456
1863	1,492	1,627		3,119	176,282	...	1,100	1,485	2,585
1864	712	2,249		2,961	193,418	...	4,300	2,461	6,761
1865	1,149	6,109		7,258	248,120	...	4,000	3,180	7,180
1866	1,862	12,633		14,495	318,568	...	15,455	4,466	19,921
1867	1,436	7,055		8,491	315,722	...	12,829	5,893	18,722
1868	819	11,166		11,985	142,023	...	13,211	21,472	34,683

1861-68	9,362	42,347		51,709	1,578,036	...	65,045	41,250	106,295

1869	3,649	16,068	24,224	43,941	352,768	4,340	18,070	32,050	54,460
1870	4,083	13,216	13,443	30,742	387,203	3,264	14,834	15,430	33,528
1871	2,015	9,418	10,699	22,132	321,350	3,249	12,276	12,985	28,510
1872	3,690	11,421	13,464	28,575	404,806	5,941	13,865	11,838	31,644
1873	4,931	16,247	14,303	35,481	459,803	5,926	10,352	9,486	25,764
1874	3,082	10,384	5,712	19,178	313,339	2,261	4,601	3,380	10,242
1875	2,656	6,093	5,573	14,322	227,498	1,678	4,048	3,591	9,317
1876	1,547	5,173	5,603	12,323	169,986	1,336	4,355	3,702	9,393
1877	1,695	4,588	4,991	11,274	141,857	1,374	3,206	2,921	7,501
1878	2,105	4,759	5,390	12,354	138,469	2,300	4,863	4,242	11,405
1879	3,474	7,345	11,001	21,820	177,826	2,845	7,608	12,761	23,214
1880	6,576	19,895	39,186	65,657	457,257	5,475	20,212	36,263	61,950

1869-80	39,503	124,607	153,589	317,699	3,552,162	39,989	170,124	148,649	306,928

1881	9,177	22,705	49,760	81,582	669,431	7,823	25,976	40,620	74,419
1882	11,618	29,101	64,607	105,326	788,992	11,385	28,804	44,359	84,548
1883	10,319	23,398	38,277	71,994	603,322	8,280	22,167	25,678	56,125
1884	9,202	16,974	26,552	52,728	518,592	6,149	14,776	17,664	38,589
1885	6,100	12,356	22,248	40,704	395,346	4,211	13,901	18,222	36,334
1886	6,225	12,759	27,751	46,735	334,203	5,558	15,116	27,913	48,587
1887	8,524	16,269	42,836	67,629	490,109	8,184	20,706	46,252	75,142
1888	8,962	18,264	54,698	81,924	546,889	8,269	21,348	45,561	75,178
1889	8,699	13,390	35,415	57,504	444,427	8,271	12,597	28,529	49,397
1890	9,366	11,370	29,632	50,368	455,302	9,524	10,898	29,487	49,909

1881-90	88,132	176,586	391,776	656,494	5,246,613	77,654	186,289	324,285	588,228

1891	10,659	12,568	36,880	60,107	560,319	9,781	13,249	36,134	59,164
1892	10,593	14,462	43,247	68,302	623,084	9,763	16,814	40,990	67,567
1893	8,779	16,079	38,077	62,935	502,917	8,551	18,690	37,321	64,562
1894	5,581	8,867	18,608	33,056	314,467	4,105	5,591	9,529	19,225
1895	4,244	7,373	15,683	27,300	279,948	3,607	6,153	14,982	24,742
1896	3,167	8,855	21,177	33,229	343,267	2,876	6,584	14,874	24,334
1897	2,085	5,842	13,162	21,089	230,832	2,260	4,580	10,109	16,949
1898	1,946	4,938	12,398	19,282	229,299	2,340	4,805	8,534	15,679
1899	2,690	6,705	12,797	22,192	311,715	2,799	6,466	11,842	21,097
1900	2,926	9,575	18,650	31,151	448,572	3,570	10,931	16,209	30,710

1891-00	52,670	95,264	230,679	378,643	3,844,410	49,652	93,863	200,524	344,029

1901	3,655	12,248	23,331	39,234	487,918	4,657	12,488	20,306	37,451
1902	5,660	17,484	30,894	54,038	648,743	6,823	19,225	33,151	59,199
1903	7,158	24,461	46,028	77,647	857,046	8,214	24,998	35,439	68,651
1904	8,525	23,808	27,763	60,096	812,870	9,034	20,836	18,533	48,403
1905	8,970	25,064	26,591	60,625	1,026,499	8,051	19,638	20,520	48,209
1906	7,741	21,730	23,310	52,781	1,100,735	8,516	20,449	21,242	50,207
1907	7,243	22,133	20,589	49,965	1,285,349	7,890	20,615	19,325	47,830
1908	4,954	12,412	12,809	30,175	782,870	4,558	7,850	8,873	21,281
1909	4,395	13,627	14,474	32,496	751,786	6,782	15,237	18,331	40,350
1910	6,984	17,538	23,745	48,267	1,041,570	8,890	17,361	23,529	49,780

1901-10	65,285	190,505	249,534	505,234	8,795,386	73,415	178,697	219,249	471,361

1911	7,555	13,950	20,780	42,285	878,587	8,303	11,122	15,571	34,996
1912	6,191	8,675	12,688	27,554	838,172	8,636	7,776	13,896	30,308
1913	6,478	8,587	17,202	33,267	1,197,892

Total	278,277	696,401	1,071,835	2,047,513	30,833,643

TABLE II

FOREIGN-BORN SCANDINAVIAN POPULATION, 1850

U. S. Census of 1850

States and Territories	Denmark	Norway	Sweden	Total Scandi- navian	Total Population
Alabama	18	3	51	72	771,623
Arkansas	7	1	1	9	209,897
California	92	124	162	378	92,597
Connecticut	16	1	13	30	370,792
Delaware	1	——	2	3	91,532
District of Columbia	6	——	5	11	51,687
Florida	21	17	33	71	87,445
Georgia	24	6	11	41	906,185
Illinois	93	2,415	1,123	3,631	851,470
Indiana	10	18	16	44	988,416
Iowa	19	361	231	611	192,214
Kentucky	7	18	20	45	982,405
Louisiana	288	64	249	601	517,762
Maine	47	12	55	114	583,169
Maryland	35	10	57	102	583,034
Massachusetts	181	69	253	503	994,514
Michigan	13	110	16	139	397,654
Minnesota Territory	1	7	4	12	6,077
Mississippi	24	8	14	46	606,526
Missouri	55	155	37	247	682,044
New Hampshire	3	2	12	17	317,976
New Jersey	28	4	34	66	489,555
New Mexico Territory	2	2	1	5	61,547
New York	429	392	753	1,574	3,097,394
North Carolina	6	——	9	15	869,039
Ohio	53	18	55	126	1,980,329
Oregon Territory	2	1	2	5	13,294
Pennsylvania	97	27	133	257	2,311,786
Rhode Island	15	25	17	57	147,545
South Carolina	24	7	29	60	668,507
Tennessee	8	——	8	16	1,002,717
Texas	49	105	48	202	212,592
Utah Territory	2	32	1	35	11,380
Vermont	——	8	——	8	314,120
Virginia	15	5	16	36	1,421,661
Wisconsin	146	8,651	88	8,885	305,391
	——	———	——	———	————
Total	1,837	12,678	3,559	18,074	23,191,876

TABLE III

FOREIGN-BORN SCANDINAVIAN POPULATION, 1870
U. S. Census, 1870

States and Territories	Denmark	Norway	Sweden	Total Scandi- navians	Total Popu- lation
Alabama	80	21	105	206	996,992
Arkansas	55	19	134	208	484,471
California	1,837	1,000	1,944	4,781	560,247
Connecticut	116	72	323	511	537,454
Delaware	8	——	9	17	125,015
Florida	40	16	30	86	187,748
Georgia	42	14	35	91	1,184,109
Illinois	3,711	11,880	29,979	45,570	2,539,891
Indiana	315	123	2,180	2,618	1,680,637
Iowa	2,827	17,554	10,796	31,177	1,194,020
Kansas	502	588	4,954	6,044	364,399
Kentucky	53	16	112	181	1,321,011
Louisiana	290	76	358	724	726,915
Maine	120	58	91	269	626,915
Maryland	106	17	100	223	780,894
Massachusetts	267	302	1,384	1,953	1,457,351
Michigan	1,354	1,516	2,406	5,276	1,184,059
Minnesota	1,910	35,940	20,987	58,837	439,706
Mississippi	193	78	970	1,241	827,922
Missouri	665	297	2,302	3,264	1,721,295
Nebraska	1,129	506	2,352	3,987	122,993
Nevada	208	80	217	505	42,491
New Hampshire	11	55	42	108	318,300
New Jersey	510	90	554	1,154	906,096
New York	1,698	975	5,522	8,195	4,382,759
North Carolina	8	5	38	51	1,071,361
Ohio	284	64	252	600	2,665,260
Oregon	87	76	205	368	90,923
Pennsylvania	561	115	2,266	2,942	3,521,951
Rhode Island	24	22	106	152	217,353
South Carolina	50	——	60	110	705,606
Tennessee	86	37	349	472	1,258,520
Texas	159	403	364	926	818,579
Vermont	21	34	83	138	330,551
Virginia	23	17	30	70	1,225,163
West Virginia	21	1	5	27	442,014
Wisconsin	5,212	40,046	2,799	48,057	1,054,670
Arizona Ter.	19	7	7	33	9,658
Colorado Ter.	77	40	180	297	39,864
Dakota Ter.	115	1,179	380	1,674	14,181
Dist. of Columbia	29	5	22	56	131,700
Idaho Ter.	88	61	91	240	14,999
Montana Ter.	95	88	141	324	20,595
New Mexico Ter.	15	5	6	26	91,874
Utah Ter.	4,957	613	1,790	7,360	86,786
Washington Ter.	84	104	158	346	23,955
Wyoming Ter.	54	28	109	191	9,118
	———	———	———	———	————
Total	30,098	114,243	97,327	241,686	38,558,371

TABLE IV

FOREIGN-BORN SCANDINAVIAN POPULATION, 1890
U. S. Census of 1890

States and Territories	Denmark	Norway	Sweden	Total Scandi- navian	Total Popu- lation
Alabama	71	47	294	412	1,513,017
Arizona Territory	180	59	168	407	59,620
Arkansas	125	60	333	518	1,128,179
California	7,764	3,702	10,923	22,389	1,208,130
Colorado	1,650	893	9,659	12,202	412,198
Connecticut	1,474	523	10,021	12,018	746,258
Delaware	41	14	246	301	168,493
District of Columbia	72	70	128	270	230,392
Florida	105	179	529	813	391,422
Georgia	61	88	191	340	1,837,353
Idaho	1,241	741	1,524	3,506	84,285
Illinois	12,044	30,339	86,514	128,897	3,826,351
Indiana	718	285	4,512	5,515	2,192,404
Iowa	15,519	27,078	30,276	72,873	1,911,896
Kansas	3,136	1,786	17,096	21,998	1,427,096
Kentucky	92	120	184	396	1,858,635
Louisiana	232	136	328	796	1,118,587
Maine	696	311	1,704	2,711	661,086
Maryland	130	164	305	599	1,042,390
Massachusetts	1,512	2,519	18,624	22,655	2,238,943
Michigan	6,335	7,795	27,366	41,496	2,093,889
Minnesota	14,133	101,169	99,913	215,215	1,301,826
Mississippi	90	54	305	449	1,289,600
Missouri	1,333	526	5,602	7,461	2,679,184
Montana	683	1,957	3,771	6,411	132,159
Nebraska	14,345	3,632	28,364	46,341	1,058,910
Nevada	332	69	314	715	45,761
New Hampshire	64	251	1,210	1,425	376,530
New Jersey	2,991	1,317	4,159	8,467	1,444,933
New Mexico Ter.	54	42	149	245	153,593
New York	6,238	8,602	28,430	43,270	5,997,753
North Dakota	2,860	25,773	5,583	34,216	182,719
North Carolina	26	13	51	90	1,617,947
Ohio	956	511	2,742	4,209	3,672,316
Oklahoma Ter.	37	36	138	211	61,834
Oregon	1,288	2,271	3,774	7,333	313,767
Pennsylvania	2,010	2,238	19,346	23,594	5,258,014
Rhode Island	154	285	3,392	3,831	345,506
South Dakota	4,369	19,257	7,746	31,372	328,808
South Carolina	36	23	60	119	1,151,149
Tennessee	92	41	332	465	1,767,518
Texas	649	1,313	2,806	4,768	2,235,523
Utah Territory	9,023	1,854	5,986	16,863	207,905
Vermont	58	38	870	966	332,422
Virginia	108	102	215	425	1,655,980
Washington	2,807	8,334	10,272	21,413	349,390
West Virginia	44	7	72	123	762,794
Wisconsin	13,885	65,696	20,157	99,738	1,686,880
Wyoming	680	345	1,357	2,382	60,705
	———	———	———	———	————
Total	132,543	322,665	478,041	933,249	62,622,250

TABLE V

FOREIGN WHITE STOCK OF SCANDINAVIAN ORIGIN, 1910

13th Census, I, Chapter viii, Table 29

Under each state the figures represent
(1) foreign born, corresponding to the figures given for 1850, 1870, and 1890
(2) native white of foreign parentage
(3) native white of mixed parentage

	Norway	Sweden	Denmark	Totals	Grand Total

Alabama	266	752	197	1,215
	114	481	105	700
	168	274	128	570	2,485
Arizona	272	845	284	1,401
	164	427	172	763
	106	302	246	654	2,818
Arkansas	76	385	178	639
	49	176	72	297
	77	374	198	649	1,585
California	9,952	26,210	14,208	50,370
	4,666	14,797	8,244	27,707
	2,528	5,464	4,043	12,035	90,112
Colorado	1,787	12,445	2,755	16,987
	1,421	9,681	1,894	12,996
	826	3,287	1,061	5,174	35,157
Connecticut	1,265	18,208	2,722	22,195
	499	14,508	1,845	16,852
	204	1,788	418	2,410	41,457
Delaware	38	332	52	422
	15	208	17	240
	12	85	19	116	778
Florida	303	728	295	1,326
	158	387	110	655
	303	412	161	876	2,857
Georgia	145	289	112	546
	56	153	33	242
	85	196	72	353	1,141
Idaho	2,566	4,985	2,254	9,805
	2,221	3,876	2,680	8,777
	1,289	2,124	2,532	5,945	24,527
Illinois	32,913	115,422	17,368	165,703
	26,572	94,830	11,551	132,953
	8,953	19,879	4,600	33,432	332,088
Indiana	531	5,081	900	6,512
	363	4,824	692	5,879
	299	1,896	582	2,777	15,168
Iowa	21,924	26,763	17,961	66,648
	30,392	28,859	17,814	77,065
	14,586	10,573	5,966	31,125	174,838
Kansas	1,294	13,309	2,759	17,362
	1,371	15,911	2,635	19,917
	1,031	6,411	1,822	9,264	46,543
Kentucky	53	190	78	321
	39	104	40	183
	40	148	96	284	788
Louisiana	294	344	239	877
	92	154	125	371
	252	438	392	1,082	2,330
Maine	580	2,203	929	3,712
	288	1,478	715	2,481
	218	627	340	1,185	7,378
Maryland	363	421	237	1,021
	144	209	88	441
	164	261	158	583	2,045
Massachusetts	5,432	39,560	3,403	48,395
	2,170	25,149	1,706	29,025
	768	3,759	963	5,490	82,910
Michigan	7,638	26,374	6,313	40,325
	6,778	25,624	6,055	38,457
	2,358	4,939	2,431	9,728	88,510
Minnesota	105,302	122,427	16,137	243,866
	126,549	118,083	15,430	260,062
	47,755	27,508	5,957	81,220	585,148
Mississippi	91	292	119	502
	32	178	51	261
	116	280	122	518	1,281
Missouri	660	5,654	1,729	8,043
	543	4,937	1,147	6,627
	537	2,936	1,380	4,853	19,523
Montana	7,169	6,410	1,943	15,522
	4,859	3,865	1,302	10,026
	1,914	1,527	696	4,137	29,685
Nebraska	2,750	23,219	13,673	39,643
	2,989	26,599	13,957	43,545
	1,968	8,668	4,932	15,568	98,755
Nevada	254	708	616	1,578
	107	293	393	793
	92	192	307	591	2,962
New Hampshire	491	2,068	131	2,690
	292	1,172	55	1,519
	69	316	69	454	4,663
New Jersey	5,351	10,547	5,056	20,954
	2,256	5,899	3,350	11,505
	745	1,902	1,261	3,908	36,367
New Mexico	151	365	116	632
	109	240	75	424
	71	144	91	306	1,362
New York	25,012	53,703	12,536	91,251
	10,171	29,284	5,006	44,461
	2,221	7,248	3,167	12,636	148,348
North Carolina	39	112	36	187
	13	36	13	62
	28	70	28	126	375
North Dakota	45,937	12,160	5,355	63,452
	56,577	10,533	5,043	72,153
	20,770	4,107	1,805	26,682	162,287
Ohio	1,109	5,522	1,837	8,468
	571	4,075	1,150	5,796
	351	1,458	808	2,617	16,881
Oklahoma	351	1,028	550	1,929
	425	943	518	1,886
	432	1,058	577	2,067	5,882
Oregon	6,843	10,099	3,215	20,157
	4,643	5,866	2,167	12,676
	1,949	2,233	1,391	5,573	38,406
Pennsylvania	2,317	23,467	3,033	28,817
	995	22,803	1,656	25,454
	651	5,415	1,261	7,327	61,598
Rhode Island	577	7,404	328	8,309
	230	5,174	153	5,557
	109	636	108	853	14,719
South Carolina	82	95	51	228
	19	20	9	48
	40	68	68	176	452
South Dakota	20,918	9,998	6,294	37,210
	27,803	9,640	6,396	43,839
	12,025	3,654	2,273	17,952	99,001
Tennessee	89	363	163	615
	74	237	87	398
	79	281	119	479	1,492
Texas	1,784	4,703	1,287	7,774
	1,649	4,724	844	7,217
	1,012	2,171	942	4,125	19,116
Utah	2,304	7,227	8,300	17,831
	1,562	5,906	10,169	17,637
	1,643	3,930	8,142	13,715	49,183
Vermont	102	1,331	172	1,605
	41	905	74	1,020
	32	185	68	285	2,910
Virginia	311	368	239	918
	222	215	140	577
	164	138	95	397	1,892
Washington	28,363	32,195	7,804	68,362
	18,486	18,244	4,988	41,718
	5,875	5,640	2,286	13,801	123,881
West Virginia	38	278	67	383
	10	196	51	257
	31	124	48	203	843
Wisconsin	56,999	25,739	16,454	99,192
	71,681	23,268	15,903	110,852
	29,020	6,379	5,958	41,357	251,401
Wyoming	623	2,497	962	4,082
	381	1,455	866	2,702
	245	598	521	1,364	8,148

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