OF A CERTAIN PENNSYLVANIA FAMILY. 69 



The next member of the mam fraternity is III-57: her marriage into 

 Line E will be considered later. 



Finally we take up III-59, the yomigest of the children of II-4 and 5. 

 He w^as born 1867. Was like his brothers in his inabiUty to learn as a 

 boy, but is a man of powerful physique and a tremendous worker. 

 Has married III-60, a cousin of III-52. She is small, slight, hollow- 

 eyed, and quite worn out with hard work and child-bearing. With the 

 help of their children they cultivate a 300-acre farm. Their only 

 ambition is to save money enough for a farm of their own. The three 

 eldest daughters are good-looking, of fine physique, but very ignorant. 

 The younger ones, small for their ages, shy and mentally retarded. 

 The only grown son (IV-147), born 1892, looks 16 rather than 21. 

 Awkward and clownish. Stupid in school. This family is extremely 

 hardworking. 



One child (IV-132) in this large fraternity is dead. Had convulsions 

 at 2 years and 5 months; death following illness in 24 hours. 



The Fraternity of 111-49 and 52. — This fraternity was derived from 

 a lazy, alcoholic father and a faithful, hard-working mother, and came 

 from a strain on the father's side representing much alcoholism, 

 shiftlessness, eccentricity, religious fanaticism; on the mother's side, 

 sobriety, plodding industry, thrift. They were bom and brought up in 

 a Httle shack of three rooms. Were slow at school, and few of them 

 attended long enough to learn to read and write. As soon as they were 

 able, w^ent out to work among strangers. They comprise : A sister who 

 is a hard-faced, hard-working woman who washes and scrubs by the 

 day and spends everything she earns in drink. Another sister has 

 never talked plainly, but knows enough to do plain house-work. A 

 brother, who married IV-124, suffers from tuberculosis of the joints. 

 Since his wife's death lives with his mother and works about by the 

 day. Two brothers are unmarried and living at home, alcoholic and 

 eccentric, while two are married, but present whereabouts and condi- 

 tion unknown. 



The father of this fraternity had three brothers who drank to excess. 

 One had great pride in his farm; built the finest house in the com- 

 munity and kept everything in excellent repair. Another brother 

 drinks too, but owns and works a decent farm. He quarreled with his 

 wife and separated from her, she taking two of the children and leaving 

 him two. One of these is III-60, w^ho has married III-59 and is the 

 mother of the dull, hard-working family described above. 



The Fraternity of III-56. — Brothers all reported alcoholic and very 

 quarrelsome, with the exception of the one who provided his poor 

 hard-working mother with a home in her old age. Their father was, 

 known everywhere as a drunkard and a quarrelsome ne'er-do-well. 

 The mother was honest and very hard-working. III-56 and III-54, 



