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not been heard from since. Sibs: i-9, died 14 years. 2-cf, died in infancy. 

 3-cf works in a factory; is getting divorced. 4-cf has a roving disposition; is a 

 nurse and companion; accompanies various patients on their trips for health. 

 5- 9 has long been lawless and violent in her actions; she ran away from home 

 while in a commercial school; had been there only a few weeks when she got 

 the principal to refund her tuition, which had been paid in advance; with this 



money she went to L and became a telephone operator, later she ran away 



again to marry, and since her marriage she has run away; she loses her temper. 



Father, unknown. 



Mother, unknown. Sibs: i-cf , unknown; 2-cf, drowned when 7 years old. 



Mother's father. — Was a stage-driver between Salem and Boston and kept a 



tavern or "roadhouse" in what is now an outskirt of L, . Some of his 



descendants suggest that the wanderlust and frequently erratic character of 

 his descendants comes through this ancestor. 



Mother's mother, unknown. (12 : 177.) 



(5) Propositus, cf, born 1891; began to have epileptic convulsions at 18 

 months and became worse after 7 years. Committed to epileptic hospital 

 because " he would go everywhere when at home and was in danger of being injured." 

 Sibs: i-cf , born 1886, has been away from home, in the army (?) until a few 

 months ago; 2, 3-cf cf, died in infancy; 4- 9 , died at 3 years; 5-cf , born 1900, 

 is nervous, became badly burned one fourth of July. 



Father, born i860, drank very hard and was nervous "in consequence." 

 Sibs: i-9 , died at 21 years of epilepsy. 2-cf , born 1878, has no steady em- 

 ployment, is a hard drinker, and unmarried. 3-cf does not drink. 4-cf 

 drinks habitually; employed by the city. 



Father's father. Born in Ireland, died in Massachusetts, fairly temperate. 



Father's mother. Said to have been normal. 



Mother, born 1867, is intelligent and pleasant, makes a good appearance. 

 Sibs: i-cf is something of a wanderer and has not been heard of for some years. 

 2-cf, born about 1857, is West somewhere, address not known. 3- 9, always 

 well. 



Mother's father. Born 1829, died 1892 of tuberculosis. 



Mother's mother. Born in Ireland, 1829, had epilepsy. (18 : 199; III 5.) 



(6) Propositus, born 1880 in Canada, "a perfect whirlwind in his school 

 work," the smartest boy in his classes at school. At 12 or 13 years he began 

 to act queerly and became very quiet, selected bad companions, and ran away 

 from home and has not let his parents know where he is since (was for a while in 

 Port Arthur, Canada); he w r as always subject to sick headaches. Sib: i-cf, 

 died at 19 years. 



Father. — A very nervous man and very delicate ; died from an overdose of 

 poison. 



Mother. — Well educated; had a fall; sent to hospital on account of insanity, 

 and now an epileptic; nearly killed her nephew by choking him. Sibs: 1- 9 , 

 died in infancy. 2-cf, living on a ranch in Montana. 3-9 , died, 7 months. 

 4-cf died, 8 years, tuberculosis. 5-cf, born 1858, in U. S. Army and wounded 

 twice in Spanish- American war; died of tuberculosis. 6- 9 , died in childbirth. 

 7-cf , normal, edgeman in sawmill in Canada. 8-cf , a teamster and millwright 

 in Wisconsin. 9-cf , lives in Minnesota. 10- 9 , unknown. 



Mother's father. — Of normal mentality, crippled with rheumatism. 



Mother's father's father and Mother's father's mother. — Unknown. 



Mother's mother. — Normal. (23 : 185; IV 22). 



(7) The principal fraternity comprises 5 sons, "all wild and unmanageable." 

 They were either cared for by organized charity or sent to a truant school. 



