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of acquisition ; professional men, few tradesmen and mechan- 

 ics; artistic temperament, good talkers and eloquent speak- 

 ers; benignity and quietness. 



Johnsons of Harpswell, Maine (Sinnett, 1907). Hospi- 

 tality, story-telling. 



Kimball (Morrison, 1897). Powerful memory; few poli- 

 ticians. 



Lemen (Lemen, 1898). Strongly accentuated mental and 

 moral traits; a ''family habit" of sUght despondency; some 

 gift for poetry. 



Lindsay (Lindsay, 1889). Cheerfulness, hospitality. 



Mell (Mell, 1897). Social, genial, fun-loving tempera- 

 ments. 



Mickley (Mickley, 1893). No lawyers, but other profes- 

 sions; nearly all in comfortable circumstances. 



Neighbor or Nachbar (Neighbor, 1906). Not restive; 

 neighborly, temperate. 



Reed of Massachusetts (Reed, 1861). Few die of pul- 

 monary complaints. Generally live to old age, 85 or 90 or 

 even 100 years being nothing unusual. Capable of great 

 endurance. Taller than average. One custom has pre- 

 vailed among them to some extent; that of marrying rela- 

 tives. ''Consequences have been injurious; many of the 

 offspring of such marriages dying in infancy, early youth 

 or middle age, few living to advanced years, to say nothing 

 of cases where effect has been still more melancholy." 



Riggs (Wallace, 1901). A large proportion are governed 

 by strong religious convictions and are active in religious 

 thought and work. Many daughters of the family have 

 married Presbyterian ministers and in due time became 

 mothers of Presbyterian ministers themselves. 



Root (Root, 1870). Eight sons of Samuel were tall (with 

 two exceptions), quick, subject to frequent attacks of head- 

 ache; general family trait a prominent (frequently aquiline) 



