Note 37 — Chapter III · BRINGERS OF THE LIGHT
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In 1899 Indiana’s total school fund, exclusive of college endowment, was $10,312,000. The school revenue for that year, from all sources, was $6,534,300. The census of 1890 showed the per cent of illiterates (ten years of age and older) in Indiana to be 6.32; in Ohio 5.24; in Illinois 5.25; in Michigan 5.92. In Massachusetts it was 6.22; in New York 5.53; in New Jersey 6.50; in Pennsylvania 6.78.