U.S. Census Bureau Daily Feature for April 28: The Son Also Rises

WASHINGTON, April 28, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following is the daily "Profile America" feature from the U.S. Census Bureau:

THE SON ALSO RISES

Profile America — Thursday, April 28th. The first baby of European parentage born on the shores of the future United States came into this then-New World 450 years ago. 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. Founded in 1565, St. Augustine is 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 53 million Hispanics in the U.S. Within the 41 million foreign-born population, Spaniards number some 104,000. 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
St. Augustine history/accessed 3/16/2016:
http://oldcityhouse.com/st-augustine-history/ 
Oldest city/accessed 3/16/2016:
http://staugustine.com/history/nations-oldest-city 
Virginia Dare/accessed 3/16/2016:
http://www.virginiaplaces.org/settleland/internatchild.html 
Total foreign born: http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ACS_14_5YR_S0501&prodType=table 
In Hispanic: https://www.census.gov/glossary/#term_AllOtherHispanicorLatino 
Spanish in population: http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ACS_14_1YR_S0201&prodType=table

Profile America is produced by the Center for New Media and Promotion of 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). 

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SOURCE U.S. Census Bureau

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