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Seattle also sports the fifth-highest percentage of adults living alone in the country. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] In the city the population was spread out, with 15.6% under the age of 18, 11.9% from 18 to 24, 38.6% from 25 to 44, 21.9% from 45 to 64, and 12.0% who were 65 years of age or older.
George Frederick Frye – Seattle pioneer and politician; Edgar Gott – aviation pioneer, first president of Boeing; Carl F. Gould – architect, educator; George Hager – cartoonist for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer; John "DOK" Hager – cartoonist for the Seattle Daily Times; Alex Haley – writer, author of Roots
K. G. William Dahl, Swedish-born, Lutheran minister, founder of Bethphage Inner Mission in Axtell, Nebraska; John Alexis Edgren, Swedish-born, Baptist minister, founder of Bethel University in St. Paul, Minnesota [100] Lars Paul Esbjörn, Swedish-born, Lutheran minister and one of the founders of the Augustana Synod of the Lutheran church
Swedish Americans (Swedish: Svenskamerikaner) are Americans of Swedish descent. The history of Swedish Americans dates back to the early colonial times, [ 3 ] with notable migration waves occurring in the 19th and early 20th centuries and approximately 1.2 million arriving between 1865–1915. [ 4 ]
The New Sweden Company established a colony on the Delaware River in 1638, naming it New Sweden.The colony was lost to the Dutch in 1655. [3]Between 1846 and 1930, roughly 1.3 million people, about 20% of the Swedish population, left the country.
Were you born in Seattle in fall of 1977? You might be key to 37-year-old mystery
(The Center Square) – The Seattle City Council’s first action of the new year will be finding a replacement for the District 2 position. Earlier this month, Tammy Morales announced that she ...
The Romanisael (more commonly known as Swedish Roma and Norwegian Roma or Swedish Taters and Norwegian Taters; Swedish: romer, zigenare, tattare, resande; Norwegian: romanifolket, tatere, sigøynere; Scandoromani: romanisæl, romanoar, rom(m)ani, tavringer/ar, tattare), are a Romani subgroup who have been resident in Sweden and Norway for some 500 years. [1]