66 THE PBKBLY INHIBITED. 



Father. — Born 1835; shoemaker, drank to excess before his death in 1886; 

 was very peculiar. Sib : i- 9 , always thought queer by the family. 

 Father's Jather. — Somewhat alcoholic. 

 Father's mother. — Unknown. 

 Mother.— Yery strong. 

 Mother's father and mother. — Unknown. (17 : 2362.) 



(93) Propositus, cf, a prospector. Went to Cape Town, South Africa, and 

 not heard from in years. Sibs: i-cf , went to Mexico, not heard from since. 

 2-cr, in news business; killed by a train. 3- 9 , in State hospital for insane. 

 4-9, deaf. 



Father. — Unknown. 



Mother. — Lost memory, refused to eat; of nervous temperament; religious. 

 (17:2563.) 



(94) Propositus, cf , has always been alcoholic, drinking whenever he got the 

 chance. Now at 73 he has developed insane ideas, of which one is to travel all 

 over the country on a bicycle. He is active, restless, and on the go all of the time. 

 When not riding his bicycle, he will walk for hours at a time. He has 2 sons, 

 neither nomadic, but one alcoholic. Sibs: i- 9 , bom 1827, is nervous, quick- 

 tempered, determined, no special sickness. 2- 9 , died of cancer. 3- 9 , died 

 of consumption. 4- 9 , died in convulsions at 7 years, of congestion of the 

 brain. 5 -c? , a nervous man, not worth much, without energy, and yet he was 

 married three times. 6-9, unknown. 7-9, a nervous, cranky woman; 

 deformed on account of infantile paralysis (?). 



Father. — ^A poor, worthless drunkard; submental; froze to death. 

 Mother. — Well and strong, lived to be 88 years old. (21 : 19, II 21.) 



(95) The father, born 1865, left home early, has wandered almost continuously 

 and has not often communicated with his relatives. After leaving school he 

 worked at various things, but never stuck to anything. By his own statement 

 has at various times worked on the railroad in different capacities; also at 

 carpentering and soldiering. After his first wife died he began to wander more 

 than ever; has been in every State of the Union except three; also in Europe and 

 Australia. He enlisted in Cuban War. He is Sx and has a violent temper. 



Father's mother. — ^Was peculiar, subject to fits of temper and hysteria. 



Mother. — ^An Sx and filthy woman. 



Mother's father. — ^Alcoholic. 



The children of the above father and mother: i-cf , born 1899; fond of 

 school, but lazy and quick-tempered like his father. 2-cf , bom 1903; at 

 asylum school. 3 - 9 , born 1907 ; at orphan asylum. Two others still young. 

 (32 : 170.) 



(96) Propositus, cf, born 1855; of a roving disposition. Lived with a 

 woman, deserted her to live with another in Buffalo (home in northwestern 

 Pennsylvania). Sib: 9 , ran away from home and got married at 14; broods. 



Father. — Worthless; worked at farming, maintaining a squalid home. 

 Mother. — Entirely unknown. (28 : 71, IV 39.) 



(97) Propositus, cf , is of a roving disposition. Sibs : i - 9 , married, not a 

 wanderer. 2-0^, farmer. 3 to 7 not W {}). 



Father. — ^A prosperous farmer. Sibs : i - 9 , died young. 2-0?", unknown. 

 3 - 9 , lived in Kansas. 4 - cf , lives in Pennsylvania. 5 - 9 , died at 1 8 months. 

 6 -cf, died at 3 years. 7-cf, miner. 8-9 , died at 2 J years. 



