42 JUKES— EDWARDS 



there is no call to include the women who thus 

 came into the family, and it would have magnified 

 the study needlessly. 



Until quite recently there has been no way to 

 discover the standing of married women in Ameri- 

 can life except as we know the social, scholastic, 

 and professional position of their husbands. In 

 most families a son-in-law becomes a representative 

 factor of a family. Therefore, whenever the "Ed- 

 wards family" is spoken of it includes the sons-in- 

 law, but it does not include the daughters-in-law, 

 nor does it go beyond Jonathan Edwards to include 

 his brothers and sisters or their descendants. 



The "Jukes" had no inherited capacity or train- 

 ing upon which they could safely presume. Their 

 only chance lay in nursing every germ of hope by 

 means of industry and education, through the dis- 

 cipline of the shop, the training of the schools, and 

 the inspiration of the church. Did they appreciate 

 this ? Far from it. Instead of developing capacity 

 by training, not one of the 1,200 secured even a 

 moderate education, and only twenty of them ever 

 had a trade, and ten of these learned it in the 

 state prison. 



On the other hand, although the Edwards family 

 inherited abundant capacity and character, every 

 child has been educated from early childhood. Not 

 all of the college members of the family have been 

 discovered, and yet among the men alone I have 

 found 285 graduates and a surprisingly large num- 

 ber of these have supplemented the college course 



