NOMADISM, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO HEREDITY. 51 



behavior. 3~<?, a cordwainer and cooper. 4 -cf, as a young man ' 10k" 



to sea and saved $3,700, which he put in the bank ; he was very cli iceited, 



egotistical, garrulous, stubborn, and not alcoholic. 5 -o" , a short man 

 in the Civil War, was a sea-captain at one time and when an old man was 

 "ship-keeper" for ships in port. 6-e? , a sea-going man who died unm irried 

 at 25, went to the "Banks," and went on trips to study navigation, y-o 71 , a 

 shoemaker; went to the Civil War "under age," took a lively and valiant 

 part in the battles on the sea waged by the Monitor; after the war. had 

 melancholic attacks; he was not alcoholic, but quick-tempered and died 

 demented. 8-9 was very exacting and " finicky. " 



Mother's father's father. — A cooper. 



Mother's father's mother. — Died of tuberculosis. 



Mother's mother. — Always notably a great worrier, particularly over her 

 numerous sea-going relatives, for fear that someone would be lost at sea. 

 Sibs: i-9 , died of cancer. 2 -tf, a. seaman. 3- 9 , died at 5 years. 4- 9 , up- 

 right, exceedingly stern woman; became a man-hater; died demented, stub- 

 born, childish. 5-<?,a. shoemaker, rough in manner, lives with his sister 

 (4) ; has never married. 6, died at 2 years. 



Mother's mother's father. — Drowned out of a dory. (12 : 21, V ; 



(50) The principal fraternity of 5 comprises 4 men, of whom one now 

 "wanders about," childless; another "has shown a vagrant tendency, little feeling 

 of responsibility and large imagination all his life;" a third was epileptic in 

 his youth; and a fourth is an honest, sober, but ineffective man. Thus tw<> 

 are nomadic and two are not. Of the sister we only know that she is " fairly 

 educated and highly respected in her community and church." 



Father. — Wandering, alcoholic, thrown into convulsions by whisky; of a 

 strain showing much vagrancy, alcoholism, epilepsy, and imbecility. 



Mother. — A feeble-minded but moral woman of defect i . 1 I ' erman stock. 



Mother's father. — D. H. (E. R. O. 24 : 299). He was without sense of num- 

 ber and proportion, and although he went to school for several yeai 

 never able to learn anything. He was too feeble-minded to plan his work 

 carefully or successfully and too careless and slack to do well what was planned 

 for him. The land which he did not sell fell into disuse, and his neighbi >rs, 1 nit 

 of pity, used to have him do simple tasks for them, but he could not be relied 

 upon to use even the hoe properly. 



Mother's mother. — Was very wild and dissolute as a girl; the common 

 propertv of the dissolute young men of the neighborhood. She has preserved 

 her reputation for licentiousness throughout her married life. Her house is 

 never clean nor the food well-cooked; everything goes without plan or purp Is e, 

 while the mother races the countryside 5 days out of every week, getting enter- 

 tainment for herself and her children from anyone whom she can impose upon. 

 Of the forbears of this woman we are told only (24:300) "her immediate 

 family were of fairly good repute, thrifty, poor, hardworking, but belonging to 

 a strain showing lack of sex-control. (24 : 308.) 



(51) Propositus, cf , was a high-spirited man who was fond of the adventurous 



life of the sailor and was lost at sea when but 20. Sibs; 1 J .was a school teacher 

 before marriage. 2-9, died in infancy. 3-0" , is a marine engineer, has 

 mechanical ability, is fond of travel. 4-0", is a clergyman and teacher; he is 

 fond of natural history, fishing, and of chess; he 1- a walker, is fond of 



nature study, and is very "set "in opinion. 5 -cf, is an imaginative, brilliant, 

 affectionate, and religious man. 



Father. — Has had several places of residence, was a splendid business man. 

 and had excellent judgment. Sib: i-9 , a very jolly, humorous woman. 



