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Immigrant Jacksonville: A Profile Of Immigrant Groups In Jacksonville, Florida, 1890-1920, Kathleen Ann Francis Cohen
Immigrant Jacksonville: A Profile Of Immigrant Groups In Jacksonville, Florida, 1890-1920, Kathleen Ann Francis Cohen
UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations
From 1890 to 1920, a small foreign immigrant community, diverse in its cultures and religions, put down roots in Jacksonville, Florida, and thrived. This paper concentrates on southern Italians, Russian and Romanian Jews, Syrian Christians, Greeks, and Chinese who left their countrymen in northern urban centers and settled in this city. It investigates the immigrants' old-world origins, their occupational skills, their settlement patterns, and their motivations for immigrating.
The total number of foreign-born white immigrants in Jacksonville was less than 4,000 for the period covered. The manuscript census schedules completed by the Census of Population for 1900 and 1910 provided …