HUMAN PEDIGREES 13 



The tendency to manifest the suicidal mania 

 developes, as a rule, between twenty and twenty-five 

 years of age. There is one marked exception to the 

 rule. It is the male member, No. 6 in the P generation. 

 (Pedigree Chart 1.) He was a wealthy farmer, 

 and was very much respected. He had apparently 

 lived in his native village all his life. Notwith- 

 standing that he had been very successfal in his 

 affairs^ at fifty years of age, in the July of 1907, 

 he committed suicide by shooting himself. An 

 announcement of his death, accompanied by an 

 obituary, appeared at the time in several of the 

 weekly newspapers. It appears there was ^no reason 

 for the suicide. But it is significant that through- 

 out his manhood, according to the account of his 

 relatives supplied to us, he was regarded as " crazy," 

 though he was never confined in an asylum. 



As is usual in constructing a pedigree of this sort, 

 one finds that a few individuals are unknown, or the 

 memory of them is lost, and we are perforce compelled 

 to supply their place by hypothetical persons. These 

 persons, however, we know must have existed. 

 There are five of them in the present pedigree, and 

 they are indicated by the cross line passing across the 

 symbol which stands for them. They are Nos. 1-4 in 

 the Pg generation, and No. 2 in the P^ generation. In 

 the P^ generation it is known that other members 

 besides those shown in the pedigree existed, but all 

 family account of them is lost, and I have not yet 

 been able to trace them. 



