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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.