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APPENDIX B. EARLY SWEDISH SETTLEMENTS IN U.S.A. 449
prosperity of the Swedes in those parts of America. Bethany
College, Kansas, founded by Dr. Swenson, is an important
institution belonging to the Augustana Synod.
In the meantime many Swedes have remained in the larger,
and for that matter also in the smaller, western cities. While
there are considerably more than 100,000 Swedes in Chicago,
Minneapolis counts them by 50,000 to 75,000, and St. Paul,
Minnesota ; Denver, Colorado ; Omaha, Nebraska ;
Kansas
City, Saline, Lindsborg and McPherson, Kansas; San Francisco
and Oakland, California, have large numbers of Swedes.
The following is a summary of the figures given by the Rev.
P. Peterson, emigrant missionary in New York. He has
printed them in the fullest and most complete form in a paper
contained in the Missions Forbundets Minnesskrift, 1885-1910,
pp. 48 fol., which includes those for 1908.
1821-1860 2 3&gt;558 forty years.
1861-1870 63,851 ten years.
1871-1880 115*922
1881-1890 291,776 ,,
1891-1900 226,266 ,,
1901-1908 211,319 eight years.
1,032,692
The figures for the years 1899-1908 have been :
1899 12,797
1900 18,650
X
9oi 2 3, 33 1
J
92 30,894
1903 46,028
27,763
26,595
1906 23,310
i97 20,589
1908 12,809
242,766
Average, 24,276.
Therefore, though there is a falling off in recent years, and a
great^drop in the year of industrial depression (1908) as there
was in the immigration generally from other countries the
figures for the last decade, 1901-1910, will almost certainly
largely exceed those for 1891-1900, when they are forthcoming.
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