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Recruitment of Immigrants

Abstracts of Reports of the Immigration Commission, 61st Congress, 3rd Session, Senate Document No. 747. GPO, 1911.

"Statistical Review of Immigration to the United States, 1820 to 1910," page 109


Table 17. - Destination of immigrants admitted to the United States, fiscal years 1899 to 1910, inclusive, by race or people.

(Compiled from reports of the United States Commissioner-General of Immigration)
[Extract of numbers for West Virginia]

African (black) 3
Armenian 4
Bohemian and Moravian 552
Bulgarian, Servian, and Montenegrin         1,275
Chinese -
Croatian and Slovenian 6,068
Cuban 4
Dalmatian, Bosnian, and Herzegovinian 933
Dutch and Flemish 97
East Indian 1
English 1,617
Finnish 118
French 310
German 1,865
Greek 1,962
Hebrew 496
Irish 288
Italian, North 2,593
Italian, South 23,865
Japanese 3
Korean -
Lithuanian 1,488
Magyar 5,078
Mexican 2
Pacific Islander -
Polish 6,005
Portuguese 2
Roumanian 2,058
Russian 741
Ruthenian 757
Scandinavian 217
Scotch 715
Slovak 4,032
Spanish 545
Spanish-American 4
Syrian 833
Turkish 145
Welsh 181
West Indian (except Cuban) -
Other peoples 81
Not specified -
Total 64,938


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