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The Journal of Heredity 



Mary P. (Ill, 9) is described as being 

 very peculiar looking. She is very dark 

 with eyes close together and very 

 black hair which grew far down on her 

 forehead. She had a peculiar way of 

 looking at people out from under her 

 bushy eyebrows. She had an illegiti- 

 mate daughter, then married a Mr. N. 

 (Ill, 10) and had two children who died 

 in youth, one of diphtheria and the 

 other of convulsions while teething. 

 Ill, 5 says that there was nothing 

 wrong with any of these children. 



Anna P. (Ill, 12), who is the youngest 

 of the family, was born in New York 

 State. She is a very well built, healthy 

 appearing woman. She has a better 

 education than her sister (III, 5), is 

 intelligent, makes a good appearance 

 and is decidedly normal. She married 

 Mr. E. (Ill, 11), who has a plumbing 

 establishment in the down-town section 

 of the city. They live in a very good 

 section of the city in a nice, newly 

 built house which has an air of refine- 

 ment about it. 



CHILDREN OF III, 12 & 11 



Edna E. (IV, 10), born in New York 

 State in 1897, is now attending the 

 high school in her home city. 



William E. (IV, 11), born in New 

 York State in 1901, is also at school 

 where he is reported to be getting along 

 nicely. 



Robert E. (IV, 12), born in 1905, is 

 also in achool ; reported to be bright. 

 father's father 



Fred P. (II, 1), born in Germany, 

 had a common school education ; prin- 

 cipal residences Germany and New 

 York State; married when quite young. 

 While in Germany his occupation was 

 that of a soldier; he was wounded in the 

 war of 1870. In America he was a 

 saloonkeeper. He had no grave illness 

 that his son knew of; died at 75 years 

 of age. He was not related to his wife. 

 As the Pins are people who do not 

 know much about their family it is 

 impossible to find out anything about 

 them farther back than this generation. 

 father's mother 



Wilhelmina V. (II, 2), born in Ger- 

 many, died in New York State at 72 



years of age (kidney trouble). She was 

 noted for her great strength and ambi- 

 tion. The family tell an anecdote of 

 how this woman during the war of 1870 

 picked up two soldiers one after the 

 other who were making themselves a 

 nuisance around the place and threw 

 them over a manure pile. 



patient's mother 



Mary S. (Ill, 14), born in New 

 York State in 1866, had a common 

 school education; principal residences 

 in New York State; married August P. 

 (HI, 13) in 1887; was a house-maid 

 until her marriage. She had the ordi- 

 nary children's diseases but other- 

 wise was not sick a day in her life 

 except when her children were born, 

 she is a good house-wife, keeps all the 

 children tidy and is kind to the defec- 

 tives. She has an unusual amount of 

 intelligence for an uneducated German 

 woman, and is very clean in appearance. 

 Dr. L. was very much impressed with 

 her as a woman of unusual patience and 

 wonderful in managing the children 

 and keeping the household together. 

 She is decidedly a woman of normal 

 mental ability, and is faithful to her 

 husband and family. After the three 

 were put in institutions, her brother, 

 Frank S., offered to take her and her 

 children and give them a good home if 

 she would leave her husband, but this 

 she refused to do and is still living in 

 very poor circumstances when she 

 might be living in luxury. The family 

 live in a very poor house where all the 

 houses look run-down and poorly kept. 

 No one could make Mrs. P. admit that 

 there was anything wrong with the 

 three oldest children for a long time. 

 She would always say that they were as 

 bright as any of the children, and it 

 was not until August (IV, 13) attemp- 

 ted to put his mother in the oven of the 

 kitchen stove that she would have the 

 microcephalics put in institutions. 



mother's fraternity 



Charles S. (HI, 18), born in New 

 York State in 1860, moved to the West 

 sometime ago and has lived there ever 

 since. I have communicated with him 



