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THE TEXAS ALMANAC
population was largely a "migrated" pop-
ulation. It is significant that James Ste-
phen Hogg (1890-94) was the first Gov-
ernor who was a native of Texas.
Foreign White Stock.
While the population of Texas has
been recruited preponderantly from other
American States, immigration into Texas
from foreign countries has contributed
more to Texas population than to that of
any other Southern State. . he census of
1920 showed that there were 360,519 for-
eign-born persons in Texas and further
that there was a total of 805,903 persons
of "foreign white stock," a classification
of the Census Bureau including all for-
eign-born and all of foreign and mixed
foi eign and native parentage. This for-
eign white stock in 1920 comprised 17.3
per cent of the total population of Texas
and 208 per cent of the white popula-
tion.
Mexican Population.
Until the settlement of Austin's col-
ony and others that followed immediately
under like grants, the white population of
Texas was preponderantly Spanish and
Mexican, consisting, however, of hardly
more than 9,000 or 10,000. Despite ef-
forts of Spanish and Mexican Govern-
ments to settle Texas, there was little in-
crease in Latin speaking population dur-
ing the early period of Texas history
Indeed, it was the rapid increase of
American colonization in the face of fu-
tile parallel attempts at colonization by
Mexicans that lay at the bottom of the
situation leading to the Texas revolu-
tion
The comparatively large Mexican pop-
ulation of Texas today, consisting of 249,-
652 foreign-born Mexicans and a total of
398,174 "foreign Mexican stock," has
crossed the Rio Grande slowly throughout
the years since Texas wonits independ-
ence from Mexico, primarily in response
to a demand for labor on the farms and
ranches of south and southwest portions
of the State Though Federal immigra-
tion restrictions apply, yet thtie has been
for a number of years an agreement by
which restrictions re lifted for the tem-
porary immigration of Mexican laborers
during the cott n harvesting season
Again, the great length of the Texas-
Mexican border makes it impossible to
guard It sufficiently to prevent much un-
lawful inmmigltion Most of the pres-
ent Mexican population is along the Rio
Grande and in South Texas, though there
is an appreciable scattering of Mexicans
throughout the Central, North Central and
WVest Texas cotton belts.
European Stock.
The Mexicans constitute more than one-
half of the foi eign-born and nearly one-
half of the toi eign white stock in Texas.
(See table on following pages, "Foreign
TWhite Stock in Texas") Next come the
Germans with 19 8 per cent of the for-
eign white stock and an additional 8 4
per cent Irom the old empire of Austria-
Hungary and the nations that have re-
cently been carved from it, including some
of Germanic and some of Slavic (Czech)
extraction. Must of this population is
found in South Central Texas. Roughly
it may be said that it s found in the tii-
angle cornering at San Antonio, Houston
and Temple, but it extends southward atTEXAS POPULATION, 1744-1926.
Pop.
-Increase- So
Year- Rank. Pop No. Pet. Mi.
*1744 .. ... .. 1,500 .
*1806 . . ....... 7,000
*1831 .......... .. 20,000
*1836 ........... 50,000 ...... ... ...
*1845 ......... .. 125,000
*1847 ......... 135,000 .
1850 ........... 25 212,592 ...... ... 0.8
1860 ......... 23 604,215 391,623 184 2 2 3
1870 . ... .. 19 818,579 214,364 335.5 3.1
1880 .......... 11 1,591.749 773.170 94 5 6 1
1890 ......... 7 2235.527 643.778 40 4 85
1900 ......... 6 3,048.710 813.187 364 11.6
1910 .... ,. 5 3,896,542 847.832 27.8 14 8
1920 .... .. 5 4,663.228 766.686 19 7 17.8
**1927 ..... . 5 5,397,000 733.772 15 7 20.5
*Population figures for 1744. 1806 and 1831 are
estimates from Yoakum's History of Texas Fig-
ures for 1836 and 1845 are estimates based on vote
in presidential elections in Republic of Texas in
those years. Fiezure for,1847 is result of partial
enmerationl of that year
**Estimate of Census Bureau.
U. S. POPULATION, 1790-1926.
Increase over
Population preceding Pop
COntinental Census. So
Year- U S No Pet. Mi.
1790 ....... .. 3,929 214' . . 4 5
1800 ............ 5,308.483 1,379.269 35 1 6 1
1810 ... .. ... 7,239.881 1,931.398 36 4 4 3
1820 .......... 9,638,453 2,398.572 33 1 5 5
1830 ..... . 12.866,020 3,2271,51,7 33 5 7 3
1840 .......... 17,069,453 4,203,433 32 7 9 7
1850 ........23,191.876 6.122.423 35 9 7 9
1860 .... ...31,443.321 8,251.445 35 6 10 6
1870 .... ... 38,558,371 7,115.050 22 6 13 0
1880 .....50.155,783 11,597,412 30.1 16 9
1890 .. ... ..... 62,947,714 12,791 931 25 5 21 2
1900 ... 75,994,575 13,046 861 20 7 25 6
1910 . ... 91,972.266 15,977.691 21 0 30 9
1920 ......105,710 620 13,738,354 14 9 35 5
*1927 . 118,628,000 12,917,380 12 2 39 9
*Estimate of Census Bureau.
points toward the Gulf Coast and west-
ward as far as Fredericksbuig and Ma-
son. The total foreign stock trom Ger-
many and the old Austria-Hungary in
Texas in 1920 was 226,141, of which prob-
ably more than 80 per cent resides in the
territory described above.
Early German Immigration.
The first German colony in Texas was
established at the present site of Indus-
try, Austin County, in 1842, but the real
beginning of German immigration into
Texas was in the founding of the "Asso-
ciation for the Protection of German Im-
migrants in Texas" in 1843, under the
patronage of a numbe-r of German noble-
men. At that time, the Republic of
Texas was a 7-year-old Nation of uncer-
tain destiny The Tnited States was in
the throes of a political fight over an-
nexation, and European nations were
watching uneasily. The willingness of
certain German leaders to sponsor colo-
nization in Texas, together with Internal
conflictt that had caused many Germans
to turn their eyes to new countries in
search of a future home, were largely re-
sponsible for the first colonization move-
ment. The oifanization mentioned above
purchased the Fisher-Miller grant of
land lying between the Colorado and the
San Saba Rivers In 1844 three shiploads
of immigrants landed at Galveston and
proceeded by schooner to Lavaca Bay,
where they began their trek to the
Fisher-Miller grant under the leadership
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