RACE DECLINE. 



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Table III. 

 Race Decline. Decrease in Size of the American Family. 



Period of 

 Observation. 



Locality or Group. 



Am. Colonies 

 1700-1750 

 1750-1800 



1726-1779 

 1727-1784 



1783 

 1800-1830 

 1804-1811 

 1810-1842 

 1842-1860 



1861 

 1860-1879 



1872 



1876 

 1872-1877 

 1877-1880 



1885 



1870-1880 

 1870-1890 



1900 

 1885 

 1900 



Benjamin Franlilin. 

 Genealogical Records. 



U it 



Am. Colonies (Sadler). 



New York State. 



Hingham (Town Rec.). 



Salem 



Hingham (Holyoke). 



Genealogical Records. 



Portsmouth. 



Yale Grad. Class Rec. 



Bowdoin 

 Yale Grad. 

 Brown " 

 Princeton Gr. 

 Harvard " 



State of I native-born. 

 Mass. I foreign-born. 

 Boston Labor Class, 



Chadwick.® 

 St. Louis Labor Class, 



Engelm.* 

 St. Louis Higher Class, 



Engelm.* 

 Boston Upper Class, 



Engelm.® 

 Female Col. Grad., 



Wright.® 

 Female Col. Grad., 



Smith.* 

 Female Col. Grad., 



England. 



From table of Prof E. 

 L. Tliorndike excluding 

 fannlies where husband 

 died in first 10 years of 

 married life — for Middle- 

 bury and N. Y. Univ., 

 for Wesleyan all married 

 are taken. 



All Children Born. ' 



O 'S 



« a 



4.0 

 3.2 

 2.9 

 2.5 



26.4, but as the number of surviving offspring is not less, this delayed 

 marriage can not be looked upon as a factor in determining the small 

 size of the graduate family. The cause is not to be sought in educa- 

 tion, in so far as the male is concerned. The educated female is in 

 a different class; the fecundity of the female college graduate in this 

 country is lower than that of any other native group, and this low 

 birth rate holds good for her English sister as well, the very small 

 size of her family — smaller than that of the American alumna — 

 standing out in striking contrast with the much higher fecundity of 

 the English people, which is nearly double that of the native-born of the 

 United States. 



Family shrinkage seems clearly referable to the strenuous, nerve- 

 racking life of the day, to the struggle, not for existence, but for a 



* Average 10 years of married life. 



