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UNITED STATES: — MISSOURI

The State is divided into 114 counties. Jefferson City is the Stat* Capital.

Area, Population, Instruction.— Area 69,420 square miles (693

square miles water). Census population on Jan. 1, 1929, 3,404,055.

Years

White i

Negro

Total

Per gq. mile

1820 1900 1910

56,017 2,945,431 3,135,883

10,569 161,234 157,452

66,586 3,106,665 3,293,335

1-0 45-2 47-9

1 Including Indians and Asiatics. In 1910 the population by sex and birth was : —

White

Negro

Asiatic | Indian

Total

Male. Female

1,606,556 1,528,376

80,489 76,963

768 183

1,687,813 1,605,522

Total

3,134,932

157,452

638 313

3,293,335

The foreign-born population in 1910 numbered 228,896, of whom 88,224 were German (38*5 percent.), 23,290 Irish, 13,751 English, 7,961 Canadian. 6,141 Swiss, 21,401 Russian, 5,654 Swedish.

The largest cities in the State, with population in 1920, are : —

Cities

St. Louis Kansas City St. Joseph Springfield

Pop.

772,897

324,410

77,939

39,620

Cities

Joplin. Hannibal Sedalia Jefferson(Ca)). )

Pop.

Cities

Pop.

29,902 18,950 21,114

14,067

Moberly. 12,808 Columbia. 10,681 Independence 11,686

Of the total population in 1910, 42*5 per cent, was urban.

The strongest religious bodies in the State are Catholic, Baptist, and Methodist, after which (in order of importance), come Disciples of Christ, Presbyterians, Lutherans, Episcopalians, and Congregationalists.

School attendance is compulsory on children from 8 to 14 years of age for not less than three-fourths the school term. In 1920 the public ele- mentary schools had 21,126 male and female teachers and 672,483 male and female enrolled pupils ; 631 public high schools had 9,800 male and female teachers and 62,438 male and female pupils There are 5 public normal schools. Total expenditure for public schools in 1917, 28,048,051 dollars. For superior instruction there are many universities and colleges, the more important being as follows (1919) : —

Opened

Instltntionn Professors

Students

IS47

L86T

1818

Univ. of Missouri, Columbia (State) .... 290 Washington Univ., St. Louis (lion sirt.). . ., 200

3,686

1.:'.G7 1,940