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gree back to Borne great progenitor is valuable inde- 

 pendently of individual earning qualities. 



No more would any one claim that the Jukes 

 would not have been immensely improved by edu- 

 cation and environment, or that the Edwards 

 family could have maintained its record without 

 education, training, and environment. The facts 

 show that the Jukes first, last, and all the time 

 neglected these advantages, and that the Edwards 

 family, with all its intermarrying, has never neg- 

 lected them. 



The Jukes were notorious law breakers, while 

 the Edwards family has furnished practically no 

 lawbreakers, and a great array of more than 100 

 lawyers, thirty judges, and the most eminent law 

 professor probably in the country. James Bryce in 

 his comments upon America places one of this 

 family at the head of legal learning on this conti- 

 nent. This was Theodore William D wight, LL.D., 

 born in New Haven, July 18, 1822; graduated from 

 Hamilton College, 1840; professor there 1842-58. 

 In 1858 he went to Columbia College, organized 

 the law school and was its president for thirty- 

 three years. 



Some of the most eminent official city attorneys 

 of Philadelphia, New York and Chicago have been 

 found in this family. Ex-Governor Hoadley, of 

 Ohio, a descendant of Jonathan Edwards, is now 

 the head of perhaps the leading law firm of New 

 York City or of the country. When one studies 

 the legal side of the family it seems as though 



