The  results  may  be  tabulated  as  follows :


NATIVITY

U.  S.,  except  Wisconsin
Wisconsin

Austria

Baden

Bavaria

Bohemia

Brandenburg

Canada

Denmark

England

France

Hanover

Hesse

Holland

Holstein

Ireland

Lippe

Luxemburg

Mecklenburg

Nassau

Norway

Oldenburg

Poland

Prussia

Russia

Sardinia

Saxony

Scotland

Sweden

Switzerland

Wiirttembcrg

Total,  Foreign-born
Total,  Native-born.
1850


.SO


1
1

35
1


38


112


fi4
1


272
59


1860


33
409

34
13

52
26

7

6

3

14

57

24

13

8

61


128
5
3
6

24

446

2

1

22
3
1

12


973
442


1870


965

31
20
39


52

36

6

154


578


953
993


Documenting  Local  History  151

Some  of  the  facts  which  emerge  from  this  investigation
are  rather  astonishing.  For  example,  it  was  found  that  in
1860  only  two  heads  of  families  were  of  American  origin,
all  the  rest  being  foreign  and,  with  few  exceptions,  German.
Many  of  the  children  of  German  parents,  of  course,  were  of
American  nativity,  which  gave  the  town  its  total  of  442
natives  as  against  973  foreign-born.  The  census  of  1850
shows  272  foreign-born  and  59  native-born,  or  only  20  per
cent  native.  By  1870  a  decided  change  has  come  about,
the  native  element  being  now  slightly  in  the  majority.
From  this  point  we  rely  on  the  state  census,  which  was
taken  at  the  middle  of  the  decade,  and  we  find  in  Newton  in
1885  a  total  of  1,892,  of  which  597  were  foreign-born,  or
31.5  per  cent  of  the  whole  number,  while  1,295,  or  68.5
per  cent,  were  American -born.  Ten  years  later,  1895,  the
figures  stand:  1,607  American  and  532  foreign,  or  a  fraction
over  75  per  cent  American  and  a  fraction  under  25  per
cent  foreign.
