IN THE

UNITED STATES

WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO ITS
POLITICAL, MORAL, SOCIAL, AND
EDUCATIONAL INFLUENCE

GENERA.

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COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY ALBERT BERNHARDT FAUST

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Published December, 1909

INTRODUCTION

CONTENTS

1-4

CHAPTER I

AN ESTIMATE OF THE NUMBER OF PERSONS OF GERMAN BLOOD IN

THE POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES

Mannhardt's work reviewed by Böckh

Division of the subject into three problems

I. The total number of persons of German parentage in the

United States in 1900.

II. The number of persons of German blood in the United

States in 1790, and the number of their descendants in 1900 .

III. The number of the descendants of German immigrants of

the period 1790–1900 not already enumerated

The addition of the results of these questions yields a total of

about eighteen millions, which represents approximately the

number of persons of German blood within the United States

in 1900.

Comparison with the numerical strength of the English and Irish

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5-6

6

7-12

12-18

18-23

23-24

24-27

CHAPTER II

THE INFLUENCE OF THE GERMANS IN THE MATERIAL DEVELOPMENT

OF THE COUNTRY

I. THEIR PROMINENCE IN AGRICULTURE AND DEPENDENT

MANUFACTURES

The Germans as farmers

Leading traits

As owners of homesteads

Settlement of the limestone areas.

Their choice of land with rich forest growth

The best farmers in the United States

American specialties produced by Germans

Fruit-growing-Schwerdkopf, the first strawberry-grower in New

York.

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28-30-

31-34

34-35

35

35-37

37-38

38-39

GERMAN INFLUENCE ON THE MATERIAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE

UNITED STATES

II. IN TECHNICAL BRANCHES ; IN OTHER MANUFACTURES

Technical schools of Germany the cause of the prominence of Ger-

mans in all technical branches in the United States.

Bridge-building: Röbling, Schneider, and others

77-78

78-80

Civil and electrical engineers: Fink, Haupt, Steinmetz, Hammer,

and many others.

80-87

Inventors and manufacturers of machines, agricultural, etc.

Manufacture of glass, pottery, etc.; Amelung, Stiegel, and others

Manufacture of iron and steel; Stiegel, Fritz, Anschütz, Frick,

Schwab .

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94-95

95-100