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Statistics of Swedish Immigration
tha.n forty generations the Swedes have behind them the lives of then ances-
tors saturated with hard work, thrift and economy, and an independence that
never became the slave of priest, landlord or king. Is it any wonder then
when such a race is transplanted into a richer soil and a more genial climate
that they flourish and
make for the good of the
state in which they have
taken up the white man’s
burden ?
An American author,
Hendrick C. Babcock,
justly remarks: “The
hundreds of thousands of
immigrants from Sweden
that have settled in the
West and brought pros-
perity to that country,
are no longer pilgrims
and strangers. They are
not simply in the better
country, they are of it,
and of its people. It is
to the immigrants of this
class and especially those
from Sweden, Norway
and Denmark, that the
Northwest is largely in-
debted for its marvelous
development.”
A glance at the statis-
tics of Swedish immigra-
tion into the United
States during the nine-
teenth century shows that, from 1851 to 186S, both inclusive, 56,107 persons
arrived from Sweden; from 1869 to 1880, inclusive, 153»5^9 arrived, fiom
1881 to 1890, inclusive 391,733 arrived; from 1891 to 1899, inclusive,
212,028 arrived; making a total for the forty-nine years covered by these
statistics of 813,457; adding to these 10,000 who arrived between 1820
MR. A. GRIP
Swedish-ATorwegian Minister in Washington.
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