96 THE KALLIKAK FAMILY 



grossed in business affairs to have given this subject 

 much attention. A daughter of hers, however, who has 

 inherited the taste, has been able to make up for her 

 mother's lack in this respect. The young woman is 

 now married, and her oldest son bears the united name 

 of his two ancestors, the colonial governor and Martin 

 Kallikak. 



Miriam, the oldest daughter of Martin Sr., married 

 a man who was a carpenter and a farmer. Although of 

 good family, yet, for some unknown reason, he was not 

 personally acceptable to Martin or his wife. Miriam 

 died when only thirty-six years old, and her husband 

 married again. In his will, Martin makes no mention 

 of his grandchildren by this daughter. They have been 

 respectable farming people, but have never held the 

 same social position as the other members of the family. 



Martin's third daughter, Susan, married a man de- 

 scended from a family conspicuous in the colonial his- 

 tory of New Jersey and which counts among its mem- 

 bers one of the founders of Princeton University, while 

 a collateral branch furnished a signer to the Declara- 

 tion of Independence. One of Susan's sons is still liv- 

 ing, having attained the advanced age of ninety-eight. 

 He is a resident of the town that bears his family name 

 and has always been conspicuous as a loyal and upright 



