462
UNITED STATES
Religion.
Denominations
Organiza- tions re- porting. Number
Protestant bodies :
Adventist bodies
Baptist bodies
Christian (Christian Connection)
Church of Christ Scientists
Congrej;ati'inalists
Disciples or Christians
Evangelical bodies
Friends
German Evangelical Synod of North America.
Lutheran bodies
Mennonite bodies
Methodist bodies
Presbyterian bodies
Protestant Episcopal Church ....
Reformed bodies
United Brethren bodies
United Evangelicals
Roman Catholic Church . .
Jewish Congregations
Latter-day Saints
Eastern Orthodox Churches
1917
2,694
58,790
1,274
5,698
5,844
8,255
1,637
1,068
1,349
13,916
840
65,537
15,812
7,425
2,711
3, SSI
954
7,621
1,S97
1,531
202
Members or Communi- cants. Number
91,951
5,510,590
85,717
85,096
732,500
1,430,015
180,315
119,6(11
249,137
2,173,047
55,107
6,477,224
1,848,046
921,713
445,569
304,656
12,217,373 143,000 400,650 335.000
118,225
7,236.650
117, S53
319,211
790,163
1,231,404
120,756
114,714
342.7SS
2,463,265
79,591
7,105,986
2,257,439
1,098,173
533.356
367,620
90,007
15,742,262
359,998
462,332
24.034
Instruction.
Each State of the Union has a system of free public schools established by law. The work of these is largely supplemented by private and parochial schools. In 1880 the percentage ot illiterates in the population above ton years of age was 17 per cent, in 1890 13 "3 per cent, in 1900 107 per cent, in 1910 77 per cent. The following statistics are for 1910 :—
- . of
ation
Population 10 years of age and over
—"
Total Population
Per cen total popu
Unable to Read and
Write Total
Number
Percent.
Native Whites Foreign Whites Coloured
68,386,422 13,345,206 10,240,638
74-4 14 5 11-1
50,989,343 1,535,530
12,944,215 1 1,650,519
7,646,712 { 2,331,559
3-0 12-8 30-5
Total .
91,972.260
—
71,580,270 J 5,517, 60s
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The United States Government has set aside for elementary schools in each of the newer States, from two to four ' sections ' (or square miles) it each town- ship six miles square, the proceeds from the sale of which form the chief part of the permanent school funds of those States, the income alone being used for the support of the schools. This iucome is supplemented by State and local taxation, so that it constitutes about 3'3 per cent, of the total school revenue of all the States. In 1918 the amount expended on public schools of elementary and secondary grades was 644,595,145 dollars. In 1918 the 554 universities and colleges, including the 330 co-educational colleges, the 125 colleges for men only, and the 100 colleges for women
