14 The Third and Fourth Generation 



60 or more authors 



100 or more ministers and missionaries 



100 lawyers 



75 army officers 



295 college graduates 



13 college presidents 



Max-Jukes's Descendants 



About 1,200 known in 1874; 2,094 to 1915 

 1,258 now living in this country 

 310 paupers (Dugdale) 



Over 600 of those living are feeble-minded or 

 epileptic (Estabrook) 



More than 300 immoral women (Dugdale) 



140 criminals, 7 murderers 



Not a soldier among them 



Not one had a common-school education 



Only 20 learned a trade, 10 of those in prison 



The family has cost society over $2,500,000 ^ 



Similar contrasts are undoubtedly to be found 

 in many other families, but this one has been 

 carefully worked out. Jonathan Edw^ards 

 (1703-58), whom Daniel Webster called the most 

 brilUant logician America has produced, came 

 of Welsh stock. His great-great-grandfather 

 was a prominent clergyman of London in the 



