A TYPICAL HICKORY RESIDENCE 



When Elliott Hickory married, an aunt furnished land on which he built the shanty shown 

 above. He got it up as far as the roof and then quit work, owing to lack of funds and 

 inclination. After suffering the chagrin of seeing her daughter live in a roofless house 

 for some time, Elliott's mother-in-law finally took in washing and secured enough money 

 to buy tarred paper for a roof. She sent Elliott into town to purchase this, but he returned 

 with a jag instead of with tarred paper. The mother-in-law thereupon raised another 

 roofing fund, and spent it herself. But after the house was roofed, Elliott found it un- 

 congenial, and has spent nearly all his time visiting various relatives, taking his wife 

 with him. He is distinctly feeble-minded, and in the present ignorance of public opinion, 

 this fact probably will ensure his leaving a large posterity to perpetuate his name and 

 mental traits. (Fig. 4.) 



There were found at large in' the 

 county, including school children, four 

 hundred and ninety-four feeble-minded 

 persons, which is eciuivalent to 0.9%, 

 or nine to every thousand of the. popu- 

 lation. Twenty-one of thess were idi- 

 ots, one hundred and twenty-six were 

 imbeciles, and the remaining thr^e 

 hundred and forty-seven were morons. 

 Cards with short social and heredity 

 histories for each one of them are on 

 file at the office of the Bureau of Juven- 

 ile Research, together with four hiuidred 

 and ninety-six other cards with similar 

 information on the inmates of the 

 county institutions and such anti- 

 social persons or probable cases of 

 feeble-mindedness as were brought to 

 the attention of the field worker. 



Of the four hundred and ninety-four 

 feeble-minded persons at large, four 



hundred and fifty-seven were born in 

 Ohio and three hundred and seventy- 

 one of these, or 75% of the total, were 

 born in the county in which they are 

 now living. The great majority of 

 cases were descendants of pioneer stock 

 which came from Pennsylvania, New 

 York, and the New England States. 

 But two or 0.2% of the feeble-minded 

 persons at large were born in other 

 countries, while according to the last 

 census,. 5.3%, of the population of the 

 county was foreign born. Eighteen 

 others, or 3.6% of the feeble-minded 

 persons, were of foreign or mixed parent- 

 age, while at the time of the 1910 cen- 

 sus, 9.2% of the population of the 

 county were native born of foreign or 

 mixed parentage. Thirteen of the four 

 hundred and ninety-four persons were 

 negroes. In 1910, 2.6% of the popula- 



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