NOMADISM, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO HEREDITY. 4 1 



drawing and music; social gifts; impulsive and erratic; mainly self -taught; 



unreliable in many ways, but brilliant and capable when she tries. 



Father. — Market-gardener, student, minister; genial, fond of children, 

 quick-tempered; died of apoplexy. 



Father's father. — A stern man; severe in discipline. 



Father's mother. — Unknown. 



Mother. — Social poise; good memory; sensitive; craved sympathy ; inquisi- 

 tive. Sibs: i-d\ born 1829; fond of horses and known as a horse man. 

 2-0 71 , born 1838; very fine singer; remarkable business ability; too fond of 

 women; never drank or smoked. 3-cf, amiable and popular; got to drinking 

 while in college; enlisted in the army and died of alcoholism while in it. 4- 9 , 

 fine executive ability ; a leader in church and charitable work. 5 - 9 , energetic 

 and capable; social gifts. 6- 9 , rather gay as a girl; married and had a son 

 who was an energetic lawyer ; a good speaker, not too scrupulous. By a second 

 husband 6-9 had another son, a successful business man; has been a sport, 

 but stopped drinking years ago. 7- 9 , fond of society; handsome, had issue: 

 (a) o 71 , amiable but alcoholic, died of alcoholism at 37 years; (b) 9 , line voice, 

 cultivated abroad. 



Mother's father.- — Farmer, teacher, minister; of good business ability; jovial 

 disposition, sympathetic, easily aroused, inquisitive. Sibs: i-d\ pastor of a 

 large church for 30 years; of great influence. 2- 9 , unknown; had a son who 

 was a distinguished clergyman, and another pastor of one church for over 

 20 years. 



Mother's mother. — Energetic and efficient; good disciplinarian and of 

 extraordinary beauty. (Cam-i.) 



(29) Propositus, d\ went to school at 7 years and remained 1 year; he was 

 always a truant arid troublesome; at 10 years of age he ran away to sec the 

 country; could never keep a position on account of his wandering habits: set lire 

 to a haystack; committed twice for vagrancy, and finally sent to State 

 hospital ; he escaped thence 5 or 6 times by picking a lock, and either returned 

 voluntarily or was sent back by the police, having been arrested for intoxica- 

 tion; is now in the State hospital. 



Father. — A ne'er-do-well. 



Mother. — Became obese and a prostitute of the lowest order, drunken and 

 subject to outbursts of violent temper. Sibs: 1- 9 , born 1848, committed to 

 the State Hospital, 1891, as insane; was at first noisy and violent, soon 

 became quiet, and now dull and listless; is profoundly demented; she married 

 a man who is fat, stupid, and alcoholic; four of the children died in infancy: 

 the fifth was queer and died at 19 years. 2 and 3, two daughters who died at 2 1 

 and 19 years respectively. 4-6", born 1855, has a violent temper, but is not 

 nomadic; one of his 3 sons by a submental wife is in the United States Army. 

 stationed in the Philippines; another is feeble-minded and has two feeble- 

 minded children. 5-0", born 1857; a very alcoholic piano-tuner; his wife 

 divorced him and he drifted to Connecticut (from Massachusetts), and into 

 the State hospital for the insane. 6- 9 , also became insane. 7- 9 , an obese 

 woman who has never married. 



Mother's father. — Born in Massachusetts, 1826, the sixth child of his parents; 

 a mechanical genius who was a periodic drinker and also a wandet would 



disappear for months at a time on these trips, cleaning clocks or doing odd jobs 

 and always drinking heavily; after wandering for a time he would return to 

 his home; he disappeared for good 20 years ago. Sibs: i-9 , born in Massa- 

 chusetts, 1815, a peculiar woman, who went insane at the birth of each of her 

 children, was committed to the State hospital in [844, had been suicidal; by 



