NOMADISM, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO HEREDITY. 4! 



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 stem man ; severe in discipline. 



Father's mother. — ^Unknown. 



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

 tive. Sibs: i-cf, bom 1829; fond of horses and known as a horse man. 

 2-cf , bom 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 issuer 

 (o) cf, amiable but alcoholic, died of alcoholism at 37 years; (6) 9 , fine voice, 

 cultivated abroad. 



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

 disposition, sympathetic, easily aroused, inquisitive. Sibs: i-c? , 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, cf , went to school at 7 years and remained i year; he was 

 always a truant and troublesome; at 10 years of age he ran away to see the 

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

 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: i- 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; fovu of the children died in infancy; 

 the fifth was queer and died at 1 9 years. 2 and 3 , two daughters who died at 2 1 

 and 19 years respectively. 4-cf, bom 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. s-cT, bom 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. — Bom in Massachusetts, 1826, the sixth child of his parents; 

 a mechanical genius who was a periodic drinker and also a wanderer, who 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 , bom in Massa- 

 chusetts, 18 15, a peculiar woman, who went insane at the birth of each of her 

 children, was committed to the State hospital in 1844, had been suicidal; by 



