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in work, at present a wood-cutter; (b) cf, shiftless, irritable, inefficient; 



(c) 9 , high-strung, irritable, suspicious, fault-finding, seclusive, discontented ; 



(d) 9 , went West with husband, no details available ; (e) cf , irritable, shiftless, 

 died; (g) cf , seclusive, active, moral, quick-tempered. 



Mother's father and mother both born in Ireland; no other data. (41 : 172; 

 IV 127.) 



(14) Propositus, cf , born 1885; at the age of 17 lost an eye in a steel- 

 smelting establishment and went West to his grandparents. Placed by them 

 in an agricultural college, he ran up debts and disappeared. After 5 years he 

 turned up again, destitute, having worked his way through Texas, California, 

 Washington, Oregon, and the mountains, often riding on freight-cars or walking 

 ties. He was given work on his grandfather's farm, but staid only a few 

 months. He is a jolly, likeable fellow, good-natured and good-looking; has a 

 hasty temper; is a spendthrift, untrustworthy. His one great passion is for 

 music; has an unusually beautiful tenor voice and plays almost any musical 

 instrument. Sibs : i - 9 , very capable but hard and selfish ; 2 - 9 , married a 

 ne'er-do-well. 



Father. A builder and mechanic. A man of coarse appetites, low and 

 brutal passions, hard and selfish ; a sexual offender who almost ruined his own 

 daughters and nearly killed his wife for her interference. Sib : i 9 , lived after 

 her marriage in the same city; now in a "home." 



Father's father. A man of unusual mental powers, a student of law, and well- 

 read generally. Was renowned for his wit, his vanity, his stories, and his 

 varied learning. 



Father's mother. A notorious liar, mean and underhanded, contemptible, 

 enjoyed causing suffering in others, had a violent temper, and was always 

 restless and discontented. She was sexually uncontrolled, and it is thought 

 that her children are not all her husband's. 



Mother. An effective woman who, after having left her husband, brought 

 up all her 3 children. Sibs : i -cf , went to North Dakota as soon as he finished 

 college. 2 - cf , went to the Civil War. 3 - cf , died at 2 1 , planned ' ' journeys ' ' 

 all his life. 



Mother's father. A pioneer in Western New York, a canal-boat captain, a 

 dreamer, yet not impractical. (Ami.-i.) 



(15) Propositus, cf , a student in medicine, is an introspective, reticent 

 youth who hates social life. He is extremely fond of travel, of ships, and the sea. 

 His "business ability is nil." Sibs : i-cf , a student in college, hates travel, but 

 is fond of aquatic sports; he has excellent executive ability and a very social 

 disposition. 2- 9 is fond of social activity. 



Father. Has great business ability and power of leadership. He is not 

 introspective, stammers badly, and is passionately fond of travel and of the sea. 

 Likes marine sports. Sibs: No evidence of W in two sisters or in either of 

 their 2 sons or in the i brother. 



Father's father. A ship-owner; a retiring, self-contained, introspective man 

 of good business ability. 



Father's mother. Had a very social disposition and was not given to deep 

 reflection. 



Father's mother's father. Was a ship-captain. 



Mother. A retiring, reflective woman with a fear of ships and the sea. 

 There is no statement made that either of her sisters showed wanderlust. 



Mother's father. An erratic man of marked inventive ability, "evinced much 

 wanderlust and traveled wide, especially at sea." His business ability was very 

 slight. 



