NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Finnish American

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History

Finns first started coming to the United States in large numbers in the late 19th century, and continued until the mid 20th century. However, there were some Finns in the United States beforehand; in particular, they were instrumental in the development of the New Sweden colony on the Delaware River, later absorbed into New Netherland. Many townships were established by Finnish Americans, including Herman, located in Baraga County, Michigan. The town is named for Herman Keranen, of Ylivieska, Finland. A significant number of Finnish immigrants also settled in Northern Minnesota, often working in the region's iron mines. A number of the Finns fleeing the Russification efforts also emigrated to many of the mill towns of New England where they became known for their woodworking skills. New Sweden, or Nya Sverige, was a small Swedish settlement along the Delaware River on the Mid-Atlantic coast of North America. ... For the Delaware River in Kansas, see Delaware River (Kansas) The Delaware River is a river on the Atlantic coast of the United States. ... Map based on Adriaen Blocks 1614 expedition to New Netherland, featuring the first use of the name. ... Baraga County is a county located in the state of Michigan, named after Bishop Frederic Baraga. ... Coat of Ylivieska Ylivieska is a town located in Ostrobothnia, Finland. ... Capital Saint Paul Largest city Minneapolis Area Ranked 12th - Total 87,014 sq mi (225,365 kmÂ²) - Width 250 miles (400 km) - Length 400 miles (645 km) - % water 8. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

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Demographic concentrations

Today, the greatest concentration of Finnish Americans is in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, where they form 16% of the population, and are the largest ancestral group in the peninsula's western counties.[1] The largest Finnish community in the United States, and the largest outside of Scandinavia, is in Lake Worth, Florida, north of Miami [2]. The Upper Peninsula of Michigan, also known as The Upper Peninsula, The U.P. (or The UP), and Above the Bridge by Michiganders, refers to the northern peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. ... Location of Lake Worth, in Palm Beach County, Florida Lake Worth is a city in Palm Beach County, Florida, named after a lake who takes its name from General William J. Worth, who led U.S. forces during the Second Seminole War. ... This article is about the city in Florida. ...

Notable Individuals

Notable Finnish Americans include historian Max Dimont and Gus Hall (originally Arvo Gustav Halberg), U.S. Communist Party leader. Also, an early Ethnic Finn was John Morton, signer of the Declaration of Independence. The original name of the family was Marttinen, of which Morton is an anglicized version. The Marttinen/Morton family came originally from Rautalampi municipality in the region of Northern Savonia, province of Eastern Finland. Max I. Dimont was a Finnish-American Jew and a popular historian and author. ... Gus Hall Gus Hall (October 8, 1910 â€“ October 13, 2000) was a labor organizer, a founder of the United Steelworkers of America trade union, a leader of the Communist Party USA, and five-time U.S. presidential candidate. ... The Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) is one of several Marxist-Leninist groups in the United States. ... The ethnic Finns are the dominant ethnic group in Finland, and the largest ethnic minority in Sweden, the Sweden-Finns. ... John Morton (1724-1777) from Ridley Township, in Delaware County, Pennsylvania was the delegate who cast the deciding vote in favor of the United States Declaration of Independence. ... The United States Declaration of Independence was an act of the Second Continental Congress, adopted on July 4, 1776, which declared that the Eleven Colonies were independent of the Kingdom of Great Britain. ... Rautalampi is a municipality of Finland. ... Finland is divided into 20 regions (maakunta/landskap in Finnish/Swedish). ... Northern Savonia is a region (maakunta / landskap) in eastern Finland. ... Finland consists of 6 provinces (Finnish: lÃ¤Ã¤nit, Swedish: lÃ¤n). ... The Province of Eastern Finland is a province of Finland. ...

Culture

An annual festival is held to celebrate Finnish heritage. The festival is called FinnFest and has been held in a different city each year since the festival was established in 1983. There have also been two FinnGrandFests where American and Canadian groups consolidate their festivals. The next FinnFest is going to be held in Ashtabula, Ohio, July 26-28, 2007.[3]

See also

During the late 19th century and early 20th century, over 300,000 people from Finland migrated to the United States and, to a lesser extent, Canada, in the search for a better life. ... The Swedish colonization of the Americas consisted of a 17th century settlement on the Delaware River in Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Maryland, and possessions in the Caribbean during the 18th and 19th century. ... Swedish Americans are U.S. Americans with Swedish heritage, most often related to the large groups of immigrants from Sweden in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century. ... This is an incomplete list of famous Finnish Americans. ... Finnish mythology has many features that it shares with other Finnic mythologies, like the Estonian mythology, and also elements similar with non-Finnic neighbours, especially the the Balts and the Scandinavians. ... The term Finglish was introduced by professor Martti Nisonen in 1920s in Hancock, Michigan to describe a linguistic phenomenon he encountered in America. ...

External links

Categories: Articles to be merged since August 2007 | Finnish-Americans | Ethnic groups in the United States European American is a term for an American of European descent, who are usually referred as White or Caucasian. ... English Americans (occasionally known as Anglo-Americans) are citizens of the United States whose ancestry originates wholly or partly in England. ... Scots-Irish (formerly Scotch-Irish) is a term used to describe inhabitants of the USA and Canada of Scots-Irish (particularly Ulster-Scots) descent, who formed distinctive communities and had distinctive social characteristics. ... Scottish Americans or Scots Americans are citizens of the United States whose ancestry originates in the northwest European nation of Scotland. ... Map showing the population density of Americans who declared Welsh ancestry in the census. ... The Cajuns are an ethnic group mainly living in Louisiana, consisting of the descendants of Acadian exiles and peoples of other ethnicities with whom the Acadians eventually intermarried on the semitropical frontier. ... Rusyn Americans refer to individuals who were born on, or who descended from, the territory of the historic Carpathian Ruthenia, western Ukraine, northeastern Slovakia, and southeastern Poland. ... Basque-Americans are citizens of the United States who are of Basque ancestry. ... Sicilian Americans are a subset of Italian Americans from Sicily. ... Montenegrin Americans are citizens of the United States who are of Montenegrin ancestry. ... Serbian Americans are citizens of the United States who are of Serbian ancestry. ... A Jewish American (also commonly American Jew) is an American (a citizen of the United States) of Jewish descent who maintains a connection to the Jewish community, either through actively practicing Judaism or through cultural and historical affiliation. ... Romnichal or Romanichal is the name by which groups of Romani people (often known as Gypsies) found in some parts of the United Kingdom, notably England, are called in their own language, Anglo-Romany. ...

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Demographic concentrations

Notable Individuals

Culture

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