U.S. Census Bureau Daily Feature for April 26: The Son Also Rises

WASHINGTON, April 26, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following is the daily "Profile America" feature from the U.S. Census Bureau:

THE SON ALSO RISES

Profile America — Wednesday, April 26th. The first baby of European parentage born on the shores of the future United States came into this then-New World in 1566. Martin de Argȕelles Jr. was born to a soldier father, who had brought his wife, Leonor, to the new Spanish settlement of St. Augustine, Florida, the nation's oldest permanently occupied European settlement. The better-known Virginia Dare, of the vanished Roanoke Colony in North Carolina, was born 21 years after the young de Argȕelles, who followed his father by serving in the Spanish army in Cuba and Mexico. Americans of Spanish descent are counted among the 56.5 million Hispanics in the U.S. Within the nearly 42 million foreign-born population, Spaniards number about 101,000. You can find more facts about America from the U.S. Census Bureau online at www.census.gov.

Sources:
Robertson's Book of Firsts/page 35
Founding of St. Augustine/accessed 2/7/2017:
oldcityhouse.com/st-augustine-history/ 
St. Augustine history/accessed 2/7/2017:
staugustine.com/history/nations-oldest-city 
Virginia Dare/accessed 2/7/2017:
www.virginiaplaces.org/settleland/internatchild.html 
Total foreign-born/American Community Survey: https://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/15_5YR/S0501 
Hispanic population/American Community Survey:  https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ACS_15_1YR_S0201&prodType=table 
Spanish as Hispanic: www.census.gov/glossary/#term_AllOtherHispanicorLatino 
Spaniards in population/American Community Survey: https://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/15_5YR/B05006

Profile America is produced by the Center for New Media and Promotion of the U.S. Census Bureau. Statistics and accounts drawn from cited non-Census sources are employed for illustrative or narrative purposes, and are not attested to by the U.S. Census Bureau. These daily features are available as produced segments, ready to air, on the Internet at http://www.census.gov (look for "Audio" in the "Library" pull-down menu). 

SOURCE U.S. Census Bureau

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