Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1919 — SOLDIERS IN WAR BY STATES [ARTICLE]

SOLDIERS IN WAR BY STATES

Washington, Feb. 21. —The following table compiled and made public by the war department the number off men supplied to the army by each state. Indiana ranks tenth. The figures show the states ran very closely to the quotas proportioned on populations: New York 367,804, Pennsylvania 297,891, Illinois 251,074, Ohio 200,29 3, Texas 1 61,065; Michigan 135,485, Massachusetts 132,610, Missouri ,1 28,544, California 112,514, Indiana 106,581, New Jersey 105,207, Minnesota 99,116, lowa 98,781, Wisconsin 98,211, Georgia 85,506, Oklahoma 80,169, Tennessee 75,825, Kentucky 75,043, Alabama 74,678, Virginia 73,062, North Carolina 73,003, Louisiana '65,988, Kansas 63,428, Arkansas 61,027, West Virginia 55,7 77, . Mississippi 54,295, South" Carolina 53,482, Connecticut 50,069, Nebraska 47,805, Maryland 47,054, Washington 45,154, Montana 36,293, Colorado 34,393, Florida 33,331, Oregon 30,116, South Dakota 29,686, North Dakota 25,803, Maine 24,252, Idaho 19,016, Utah 17,361, Rhode Island 16,861, District of Columbia 15,930, New Hampshire 14,374, New Mexico 12,439, Wyoming 11,393, Arizona 1 0,492, Vermont 9,338, Delaware 7,4 84, Nevada 5,105. The total of 3,757,624 included also 16,538 from Porto Rico, 5,64 4 from Hawaii, 2,102 from Alaska, 255 from the Philippines, 1,318 not allocated, and 1,499 accredited to the American expeditionary force comprising men who joined the army in Europe.