AREA, POPULATION, EDUCATION
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Area, Population, Education— Area, 58,915 square miles, of which
1,485 square miles is water The total length of Michigan coastline is 1,620 miles.
Years
1820 1860 1900 1910
White i
8,722
742,314
2,405,166
'2,793,058
Negro
Total
174
6,799
15,816
17,115
8,896 749,113
2,420,982 2,810,173
1 Including Indians and Asiatics.
Per sq. mile
0-1 13-0 42-2 48 9
In 1904 the
population by sex and birth
was : —
—
White
Negro
Asiatic
Indian
I Total
Male . Female
1,287,955 1,221,674
7,397 6,809
241
5
3,061
2,874
1,298,654 ' 1,231,362
Total .
2,500,62
14,206
246
5,935
2,530,016
In 1910 there were 1,454,534 males and 1,355,639 females.
Of the total population 2,530,016 in 1904, 546,861 were foreign-born, of whom 183,689 were from British America, 124,456 Germany, 42,138 England, 36 198 Poland, 31,072 Holland, 28,575 Ireland, 26,438 Sweden, 19,057 Finland, 9,900 Scotland, 7,532 Norway, 7,053 Italy. There is a scattered Indian population throughout the northern part of the State and a small reservation in Baraga County.
In 1910 the population of the principal cities was :—
Cities
Pop.
Detroit Grand Rapids Saginaw Bay City . Kalamazoo Jackson
465,766 112,571 50,510 45,166 39,437 31,433
Cities
Battle Creek Muskegon . Lansing Poi't Huron Flint . Ann Arbor
Pop.
25,267 24,062 31,229 18,863 38,550 14,817
Cities
Manistee . Alpena Ishpeming . Sault Ste. Marie Menominee Marquette .
Pop.
12,381 12,706 12,448 12,615 10,507 11,503
The death-rate per 1,000 of population in the State was, in 1908, 13 "9 ; in 1909, 13-6; in 1910, 14 4.
The more important religious bodies are the Roman Catholic, Methodist, Lutheran, Baptist, Presbyterian, and Congregational.
Education is compulsory for the school term for children from 7 to 16 years of age. In 1911 the public schools had 545,279 enrolled pupils and 18,207 teachers ; 382 public high schools had 1,739 teachers and 38,067 pupils. The State has 4 public normal schools with 191 teachers and 5,887 pupils in 1911. The highest education provided by the State is o-iven in the University of Michigan, founded in 1837 at Ann Arbor ; in 1911 it had 426 professors and teachers and 5,381 stiidents. There is a State Agricultural College at Lansing, founded in 1855 ; it had (1911) 121 professors and 1,568 students. There is a college of Mines at Houghton ; ni 1911 it had 28 instructors and 222 students. Other institutions are :—
