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Excerpt from Chapters on Scandinavian Immigration to Iowa
The Norwegians are the pioneers in the emigration move ment from the North in the nineteenth century; the Danes were the last to come in considerable numbers. Statistics, however, show that 189 Danes had emigrated to this coun try before 1830, while there were only 94 from Norway and Sweden.1 The Norwegian foreign born population had in 1850 reached while that from Sweden was 3, 559; and Denmark had furnished a little over eighteen hundred. The Danish immigration was not over a year until 1880 and has never reached The Swedish immi gration receives a new impulse in 1852 and reaches five thousand in 1868; it reached its climax of in 1882. The Norwegian exodus began to assume larger proportions in 1843 and reached five thousand in 1866 (according to our census, but in 1853 according. To Norwegian statistics, the number for that year being and this is probably much more nearly correct), the highest being in 1882. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
