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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Germans in the United States |
 | | School attendance was always looked upon as a serious matter, almost as serious as the teaching of religion, which was combines with elementary instruction, so that German colonies thus paved the way for compulsory education. |
 | | Louis estimated the Catholic population of Missouri at 50,000, one third being of German origin. |
 | | Gradually German Catholics were to be found in nearly every part of the United States, especially in New York, Ohio, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, everywhere establishing flourishing congregations with schools and churches. |
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