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minded children, besides a third that died in infancy. 

 She later married a normal man. 



The next child of Justin and Eunice was Beede, who 

 is feeble-minded. He married a girl who left him be- 

 fore their child was born. He lives at present with a 

 very low, immoral woman. 



The youngest child of Justin and Eunice was a son, 

 Gaston, feeble-minded and a horse thief ; he removed 

 to a distant town where he married. He has one child ; 

 mentality of both mother and child undetermined. 



This is the ghastly story of the descendants of Martin 

 Kallikak Sr., from the nameless feeble-minded girl. 



Although Martin himself paid no further attention 

 to the girl nor her child, society has had to pay the 

 heavy price of all the evil he engendered. 



Martin Sr., on leaving the Revolutionary Army, 

 straightened up and married a respectable girl of good 

 family, and through that union has come another line 

 of descendants of radically different character. These 

 now number four hundred and ninety-six in direct 

 descent. All of them are normal people. Three men 

 only have been found among them who were some- 

 what degenerate, but they were not defective. Two of 

 these were alcoholic, and the other sexually loose. 



All of the legitimate children of Martin Sr. married 



