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day a huckster asked him to carry some apples to a lady's house. The lady 

 gave him a $5 bill with which he departed. He was arrested and sent to a 

 reform school. After 2^ years he was paroled and returned home, where he 

 remained about a year and again ran away from home and went to work in 

 Washington, D. C. He states that he ran away from home because he did not 

 like it then, but can not state the cause of his dislike. Sent to an asylum 

 for the insane, he was discharged as not insane. Is an intelligent negro boy. 

 4-cT 1 , aged 15. This boy is beginning to show the same tendency as his sister 

 and brother. He plays truant frequently and has remained away from home all 

 night on several occasions. His mother, however, attributes this to a dislike 

 for school and fear of punishment at home. 5-d" 1 , aged 9, a school-boy, well 

 behaved and quite normal. 6-cf, 7 years, normal. 7-0", died at i year of 

 tuberculosis. 8-9,2 years old. Q-cf, 2 weeks old. 



Father. "His wife could give no information concerning his family and 

 therefore could throw no light on the probable heredity of the wanderlust from 

 that source. As the man, however, is a sailor by occupation, it is fair to assume 

 that he himself has been possessed of this more or less uncontrollable desire to 

 wander which has exhibited itself in different degrees in three of his children. 

 He is fairly steady in habits, quite as much so as the average negro." 



Mother. 42 years old ; robust and in fairly comfortable circumstances ; she 

 is of a pessimistic nature, with very little faith in her family. Sibs: i-9 , 

 normal, no children. 2 - 9 , no description. 



Mother s father. His wife left him early on account of his dissolute habits, 

 so she can tell nothing about him. Died of tuberculosis. 



Mother's mother. No description. (13 : 21.) 



(54) Propositus, born 1852; was a fairly strong young man. In 1872 he 

 married a woman who "likes to travel, so they have been all over the country." 

 They were married in New Jersey and have since lived in n places, and not 

 long in any one place. In 1882 when he was living in Kansas, he had typhoid 

 malaria, upon recovery from which he lost all memory of past events and 

 became mentally confused; his mind is now feeble. He has had repeated blue 

 spells ; he would be so depressed that he would, supported by a doctor's advice, 

 pack up and travel for a year. At four different periods he became disoriented 

 and lost his memory during the period of depression. Sibs: i 9 , died at 15 

 years. 2-cf, died at 16 years from a gunshot wound while hunting. 3-d 1 , 

 died at 2 years from convulsions. 4-9 , died at 6 years; she had frequent 

 epileptic convulsions. 5 -cf , has had epileptic convulsions; is feeble-minded and 

 quick-tempered. 



Father. Showed wanderlust three times and each time wandered off in a 

 confused state; once he went to Kansas to find his son and became mentally 

 confused and was lost; was then committed to an asylum with senile dementia. 

 Sibs: He had one brother, about whom nothing could be learned. 



Father's father. Quick-tempered, easy-going, had speech defect. 



Mother. Had chronic sick headaches and fainting spells; determined, 

 energetic, stern, quick-tempered, very religious. Sibs: i-9, little known. 

 2-cf, a strong, portly man, constable in a New Jersey town for many years; 

 spent the last part of his life in Florida and died there. 



Mother's father. Went to war, got chronic diarrhea, and died, shortly after 

 the war, of tuberculosis. 



Mother's mother. Had fainting spells. (21 : 232.) 



(55) Propositus, 9, born 1875; a big strapping girl; disappeared when 17 

 years old and never found ; a wanderer. Sibs : i , died in infancy. 2 - 9 , kind- 



