American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

New Hampshire (1906) religious affiliation, as reported in The Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th edition, stated: <The Roman Catholic Church in 1906 had more members than any other religious denomination (119,86 3 out of 190,298 communicants of all denominations); in the same year there were 19,070 Congregationalists, 15,974 Baptists, 12,529 Methodist Episcopalians (North) and 4,892 Protestant Episcopalians.> 1906NH001 The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume XV, Copyright 1912 by Robert Appleton Company, stated as of 1906, a census listed New Hampshire as: <Congregationalists-19,070 Methodists-12,529 Baptists-9,741 Free Baptists-6,210 Unitarians-3,629 Universalists-1,993 Advent Christians-1,608 Christians-1,303 Presbyterians-842 Catholics-126,000 Catholics, consisting of French Canadians-66,200, Irish-52,250, Poles-5,000, Lithuanians-1,500, Ruthenians-750, with 118 secular...

Massachusetts (1906) religious affiliation, as reported in The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume XV, Copyright 1912 by Robert Appleton Company, stated as of 1906, a census of religious bodies listed Massachusetts' 3 million citizens as: <Congregationalist-7.6 percent Baptists-5.2 percent Methodists-4.2 percent Protestant Episcopalians-3.3 percent Catholics-69.2 percent, consisting of Irish, French Canadians, Italians, Portuguese, Poles, Lithuanians, Germans, Syrians, Bravas, African America and Chinese.> 1906MA001 The 1906 religious affiliation of Massachusetts was reported in The Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th edition, published 1911: <With foreign immigration, the Roman Catholic Church greatly increased, so that by 1906, an estimated 355 out of every 1,000 citizens were members of...

Maryland (1906) religious affiliation, as reported in The Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th edition, published in 1911, stated: <There are about 59 religious sects, of which the members of the Roman Catholic Church, which was prominent in the early history of Maryland, are far the most numerous, having in 1906 166,941 members out of 473,257 communicants of all denominations; in the same year there were 137,156 Methodists, 34,965 Protestant Episcopalians, 32,246 Lutherans, 30,928 Baptists, 17,895 Presbyterians and 13,442 members of the Reformed Church in the United States.> 1906MD001 The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume XV, Copyright 1912 by Robert Appleton Company, stated as of 1906,...

Connecticut (1906) religious affiliation, as reported in The Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th edition, stated: <In the early part of the 19th century the Congregational Church had the largest membership, but in 1906, three-fifths of the Church population was Roman Catholic and one third of the remainder was Congregationalists, and next ranked Episcopalians, Methodists and Baptists.> 1906CT001 The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume XV, Copyright 1912 by Robert Appleton Company, stated as of 1906, Connecticut's Protestant denominations as: <Congregationalists-59,154 Protestant Episcopalians-26,652 Methodists-29,411 Baptists-22,372 Presbyterians-1,680.> 1906CT002 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. 1906CT001. William...

Maine (1906) religious affiliation, as reported in The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume XV, Copyright 1912 by Robert Appleton Company, listed: <Out of Maine's population of 694,480 in 1906, the Catholic population was 123,547.> 1906ME001 The Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th edition, published in 1911: <In 1906, Roman Catholics were more numerous than all the Protestant sects taken together, having a membership of 113,419 out of a total of 212,988 in all denominations.> 1906ME002 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. 1906ME001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Maine, 1906, religious affiliation as reported in...