A Social Study of the Russian German iy, 
have seen, there is still a small representation of the earliest 
Russian German immigrants who came to the United States in 
the seventies. A larger number and a greater proportion of those 
who came the following decade also reside in the city. The great 
majority of the foreign-born population, however, are compara- 
tive newcomers. Their date of arrival distributed according to 
five-year periods, shows the proportion of the total Russian-born 
Germans in Lincoln to be as follows: 
Per Cent 
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Thus, nearly one half of the Russian German immigrants in 
Lincoln have arrived in the United States within the last five 
years indicated, while almost three fourths of them have lived in 
America less than ten years. 
A further analysis according to the date of arrival shows that 
Russian German immigration, like all similar movements, has 
its ebb and flow; and thus far each incoming wave has risen 
higher than the preceding. During the initial period of immigra- 
tion before the nineties, the largest number (30) came in the 
year 1887. In the following decade, the year 1892 was the crest 
of the wave and brought 113; in 1903, 141; in 1907, 346; and in 
1913, 576. Each of these high tides is preceded and followed by 
an increasing number of immigrants, and represents not the 
growth of a single year but of a period. 
This brief survey of the composition of the Russian German 
population of Lincoln discloses the fact that these immigrants are 
a homogeneous group from the German colonies of the Volga, 
yet having individual characteristics developed through isolated 
life in their respective villages during a century and a half. 
While these people theoretically belong to the “new ” immigra- 
tion of south Europe, their length of residence in America has 
been sufficient to produce a large number of native-born, with 
even a few of the second generation, in whom the possibilities for 
assimilation may be observed. The majority of the Russian 
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