Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1896 — Which State Can Beat This? [ARTICLE]

Which State Can Beat This?

When Tennessee entered the Union as a State, it had about 40.0<X) population, or an average of less than one person to each o: its 42,050 square miles of territory. In 1890 it had 1,767,518 inhabitants, or an average of nearly forty persons to a square mile.» Nearly all this Increase is from the native stock, only 20,029 being foreign born, and only 33,257 of the native born being of foreign born parents.