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UNITED STATES J — KENTUCKY

Area, Population, Instruction. — Area, 40,598 square miles, of which

417 square miles are water. Census population on January 1, 1920, 2,416,630.

Tears

Population Per sq. mile 1

Tears

Population

Per sq. mile

I860 1880 1900

1,155,684 28-8 1,648,690 41-0 2,147,174 53-4 i

1910 1920

2,289,905 2,416,630

57-0 59'5

In 1910 the population by sex and birth was :-

-

White

Negro

Asiatic Indian

Total

Male Female.

1,030,033 997,918

131,492 130,164

184 114

1,161,709 1,128,196

Total

2,027,951

261,656

64 234

2,289,905

The foreign-born population numbered 40,053, of whom 19,349 were German (48'3 per cent.), 5,913 Irish, 3,222 Russian, and 2,617 English. The census population of the principal cities was in 1920 as follows : —

Cities : P ?P A u „ la - 1 tion

Cities

Popula- 1 cw tion

j

Popula- tion

Louisville. 234,891 Covington. 57,121 Lexington. 41,534

Newport Paducah Owensboro'.

29,317 24,738 17,424

Ashland

Henderson

Frankfort

14,729

12,169

9,805

Of the total population in 1910, 24"3 per cent, was urban.

The predominant religious denominations of the State are Baptist, Roman Catholic, and Methodist, less numerous bodies being Disciples of Christ and Presbyterians.

Kentucky has a law for compulsory attendance at school between the una of 7 and 14 years for eight consecutive weeks, but in the larger cities, for the full term. In 1919 the elementary schools of the State had 13,349 male and female teachers and 535,332 pupils. 293 public high schools had 1,327 male and female teachers and 23,511 pupils. The State had 4 public normal schools with 129 teachers and 2,810 students in 1918. For superior instruction there are universities and colleges, the more important of which ( 1 9 1 1* ) were as follows : —

Begun

Institutions

Staff

Students

1810 IS08 1 B8fi

1837

Central University of Kentucky, Danville (Presb.).

Kentucky University (State). Lexington .... University of Louisville

16

no

150

a, Son

2,284

502

Expenditure on education in 1919, 8,628,476 dollars.

On January 1, 1910, the number of paupers in almshouses was 1,522, being 66 "5 per 100,000 of the population, and of prisoners in penal insti- tutions 2,729, being 119'2 per 100,000 of the population.