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ternal grandfather a journalist and 

 politician. 



No. 34, Score 147. Father a teacher. 

 Mother of marked intellectual ability. 

 Ancestors are farmers of common 

 school education. A distant relative 

 is a lawyer of national reputation. 



No. 35, Score 134. Maternal grand- 

 father was an able school teacher. 

 Maternal grandmother a student at 82. 

 Uncles are successful business and 

 professional men. Aunt a talented 

 musician. Mother's brother was a 

 leader of his university class but be- 

 came insane. Paternal grandfather 

 and grandmother were both school 

 teachers. Uncle, a lawyer and judge. 

 Great grandfather served the longest 

 term in the New York legislature up 

 to this time. One relative is a noted 

 Congregational minister in New York 

 City and another a famous surgeon. 



No. 36, Score 146. Both parents of 

 English descent. Father a scientist 

 educator, publicist. The child's two 

 brothers are average, one sister was 

 very superior and another has excep- 

 tional ability. A number of superior 

 relatives on both sides. An uncle on 

 the mother's side was an admiral of 

 the United States navy. There are 

 many distinguished relatives on the 

 father's side including Ralph Waldo 

 Emerson. 



No. 37, Score 137. Father an able 

 lawyer and a man of more than 

 ordinary ability. There are many 

 prominent relatives including Samuel 

 Adams. 



No. 38. No record. 



No. 39. Father a lawyer and a 

 graduate of the university at 21. 

 Mother a teacher. Grandparents of 

 average ability. Uncles and aunts aver- 

 age or above. 



No. 40, Score 131. Mother a woman 

 of refinement and intelligence, the 

 author of two novels and a number 

 of poems. She wrote essays on socio- 

 logical subjects at least one of which 

 was published in an English periodical 

 of international circulation. She was 

 an idealist imbued with advance no- 

 tions regarding religion, sociology and 

 woman's place. The father was an 

 unsuccessful member of a distinguished 

 family. Paternal grandfather was 

 Archbishop of Ireland and dukes and 

 earls are numbered among his cousins. 



No. 41, Score 184. Father a Russian 

 Jew. Mother a Polish Jew. Father 

 an advertising man and writer; pub- 

 lished three books of fiction. Mother 

 a high school graduate and did some 

 work in a university ; has written short 

 stories and poems for various periodi- 

 cals. Maternal grandfather was a 

 business man of high intellectuality. 

 There are two cases of musical ability 

 on the mother's side, also several 

 distinguished rabbis. Paternal grand- 

 father a business man of unusual 

 mechanical ability fond of making and 

 solving problems. Paternal grand- 

 mother taught herself to read English 

 late in life. There are rabbis on this 

 side also. 



