. History of German immigration in the United States and successful German-Americans and their descendants . smay he drawn : 1. The German element form- at present thelargest part of the population of the UnitedStates. 2. The German element i- twice as large asthe Anglo-Saxon and more numerous than theAnglo-Saxon ami the American together. 3. The Anglo Saxon and the American ele-ment together form thirty-seven per cent of theentire population; the Teutonic element (Ger-man-. Scandinavian- and Hutch) forty-three percent. 4. The entire part of the population that maybe designated a- of Germanic
. History of German immigration in the United States and successful German-Americans and their descendants . smay he drawn : 1. The German element form- at present thelargest part of the population of the UnitedStates. 2. The German element i- twice as large asthe Anglo-Saxon and more numerous than theAnglo-Saxon ami the American together. 3. The Anglo Saxon and the American ele-ment together form thirty-seven per cent of theentire population; the Teutonic element (Ger-man-. Scandinavian- and Hutch) forty-three percent. 4. The entire part of the population that maybe designated a- of Germanic origin together with the American element comprises fifty-three and one half million- or eighty per cent of thewhite inhabitants of the country. And these conclusion- had to the other-: 1. The claim that the American people i- pre-eminently an English or Anglo Saxon people iswithout foundation in fact. 2. An immigration of at least forty millionsof nun Germanic p< necessary in order to overcome the preponderance of the Germanic elemenl in the United S SUCCESSFUL GERMAN-AMERICANS AND THEIR DESCENDANTS. DR. HANS KUDLICH. 44 SUCCESSFUL GERMAN-AMERICANS AND THEIR DESCENDANTS CARL SCHURZ was born March 2, 1829, inthe village of Liblar, near Cologne; in 1840 heentered the Catholic Gymnasium of Cologne, andin 1846 proceeded to the University of Bonn withthe intention of studying philosophy and his-tory. Like many other ardent and generous-minded young students, he fell under the influ-ence of Professor Johann Gottfried was a poet, an orator, an idealist, a manfitted by nature to arouse the enthusiasm ofyouth, and ready, when occasion called, to at-test his faith by his works. He threw himselfunreservedly into the revolutionary movementof 1848, and served as a private among the in-surgents in the spring of 1849. Schurz, follow-ing the example of his friend and teacher, servedas adjutant of General Tiedemann, and, when thelatter surrendered the fortress of Rastadt withf
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