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ILLINOIS STATE ACADEMY OP SCIENCE 



normal, and one a low grade imbecile, incapable of train- 

 ing or education. Her family tree, extending back to her 

 own parents and including her brothers and sisters, is 

 given in Chart II. 



CHART II. 



At present the writer is making a careful study of the 

 descendants of a family which migrated from Pennsyl- 

 vania to Eastern Indiana about 1820. They were Quak- 

 ers, and believed in education, thrift, good citizenship, 

 honesty, and peace. Approximately four hundred de- 

 scendants have been traced, and the life and achieve- 

 ments of individuals carefully studied and tabulated. 

 This family presents an enviable record of excellent citi- 

 zenship, high ideals, and moral stamina. Throughout 

 its long history the family has been represented in its 

 descendants by men who have found simple duties in life 

 and performed them with Christian fortitude. The ideals 

 of service, so prominent in the Quaker religion, took deep 

 root in the descendants of this family, and while few 

 have gained distinction, nearly all belong to the great 



