30 THE KALLIKAK FAMILY 



into the best families in their state, the descendants of 

 colonial governors, signers of the Declaration of Inde- 

 pendence, soldiers and even the founders of a great 

 university. Indeed, in this family and its collateral 

 branches, we find nothing but good representative citi- 

 zenship. There are doctors, lawyers, judges, educa- 

 tors, traders, landholders, in short, respectable citizens, 

 men and women prominent in every phase of social 

 life. They have scattered over the United States and 

 are prominent in their communities wherever they 

 have gone. Half a dozen towns in New Jersey are 

 named from the families into which Martin's descend- 

 ants have married. There have been no feeble-minded 

 among them ; no illegitimate children ; no immoral 

 women ; only one man was sexually loose. There has 

 been no epilepsy, no criminals, no keepers of houses of 

 prostitution. Only fifteen children have died in in- 

 fancy. There has been one "insane,*' a case of religious 

 mania, perhaps inherited, but not from the Kallikak 

 side. The appetite for strong drink has been present 

 here and there in this family from the beginning. It 

 was in Martin Sr., and was cultivated at a time when 

 such practices were common everywhere. But while 

 the other branch of the family has had twenty-four vic- 

 tims of habitual drunkenness, this side scores only two. 

 The charts of these two families follow. 



