per cent; New York, 59.4 per cent. Connecticut, New Jersey, Illinois,
Michigan, Montana, Nevada, and California all also had more than one
half of their population of foreign parentage in 1900. For the United
States as a whole the number of foreign parentage in 1900 amounted to
34.3 per cent, or 26,000,000 out of a total population of 76,000,000.
Many of our large cities also have a high percentage of foreign born and
of foreign parentage in their population. The percentage of foreign born
in some of our largest cities in 1900 was as follows:


Per cent.

New York........................................... 37
Chicago............................................ 34.6
Philadelphia....................................... 22.8
Saint Louis........................................ 19.4
Boston............................................. 35.1
Baltimore.......................................... 13.5
San Francisco...................................... 34.1
Cleveland.......................................... 32.6


These same cities had the following percentage of foreign parentage in
their population:


Per cent.

New York........................................... 76.9
Chicago............................................ 77.4