Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1909 — 10 CENTENARIANS ON LIST [ARTICLE]

10 CENTENARIANS ON LIST

Pennsylvania Statistics Compared With Those of Roman Empire. Harrisburg, pi l ., March 9. Ten deaths at an age beyond one hundred years occurred in this state during 1908. Two were above one hundred and ten years, one of them being one hundred and fifteen years. Seven of the ten were women. Four were natives of Pennsylvania, one, a negro, of Virginia; three of Ireland, one of Scotland, and one of Hungary. The census of 1900 credited Pennsylvania with sixty-five persons more than one hundred years old in a total population of 6,333,330. A census of the Roman empire A. D., 74, showed 129 persons more than one hundred years old in a total population of 9,000,000.