SWEDES
\swˈiːdz], \swˈiːdz], \s_w_ˈiː_d_z]\
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The Swedish element in U.S. history came originally in the settlement of New Sweden. (SEE Delaware.) The Swedish language was spoken there until after the Revolution, when the Swedish king ceased to send out a Swedish pastor, as he had hitherto done, because it seemed no longer necessary. Swedish immigration to the United States began to be important about 1846, and increased rapidly after 1876. Immigrants from Sweden and Norway have constituted sis per cent of all immigrants since 1820.
By John Franklin Jameson
