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UNITED STATES: — MISSOURI
The State is divided into 114 counties. Jefferson City is the Stat* Capital.
Area, Population, Instruction.— Area 69,420 square miles (693
square miles water). Census population on Jan. 1, 1929, 3,404,055.
Years
White i
Negro
Total
Per gq. mile
1820 1900 1910
56,017 2,945,431 3,135,883
10,569 161,234 157,452
66,586 3,106,665 3,293,335
1-0 45-2 47-9
1 Including Indians and Asiatics. In 1910 the population by sex and birth was : —
White
Negro
Asiatic | Indian
Total
Male . Female
1,606,556 1,528,376
80,489 76,963
768 183
1,687,813 1,605,522
Total
3,134,932
157,452
638 313
3,293,335
The foreign-born population in 1910 numbered 228,896, of whom 88,224 were German (38*5 percent.), 23,290 Irish, 13,751 English, 7,961 Canadian. 6,141 Swiss, 21,401 Russian, 5,654 Swedish.
The largest cities in the State, with population in 1920, are : —
Cities
St. Louis Kansas City St. Joseph Springfield
Pop.
772,897
324,410
77,939
39,620
Cities
Joplin . Hannibal Sedalia Jefferson(Ca)). )
Pop.
Cities
Pop.
29,902 18,950 21,114
14,067
Moberly . 12,808 Columbia . 10,681 Independence 11,686
Of the total population in 1910, 42*5 per cent, was urban.
The strongest religious bodies in the State are Catholic, Baptist, and Methodist, after which (in order of importance), come Disciples of Christ, Presbyterians, Lutherans, Episcopalians, and Congregationalists.
School attendance is compulsory on children from 8 to 14 years of age for not less than three-fourths the school term. In 1920 the public ele- mentary schools had 21,126 male and female teachers and 672,483 male and female enrolled pupils ; 631 public high schools had 9,800 male and female teachers and 62,438 male and female pupils There are 5 public normal schools. Total expenditure for public schools in 1917, 28,048,051 dollars. For superior instruction there are many universities and colleges, the more important being as follows (1919) : —
Opened
Instltntionn Professors
Students
IS47
L86T
1818
Univ. of Missouri, Columbia (State) .... 290 Washington Univ., St. Louis (lion sirt.) . . ., 200
3,686
1.:'.G7 1,940
