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viduals were to Sebastian's immediate ancestry. 

 In six generations there appeared 57 musicians 

 of repute, 29 of whom were really noted. 



The best-known illustration of inherited 

 ability in American families is found in the 

 descendants of Jonathan Edwards, and there is 

 usually contrasted with this Edwards family of 

 noted people a contemporaneous but notori- 

 ous family, known as the Max- Jukes, whose 

 pedigree was traced to 1874 in detail by 

 R. A. Dugdale and to 191 5 by Estabrook. 

 Dugdale's data were published in the Twentieth 

 Annual Report of the New York State Prison 

 Commission, later appearing as a book from the 

 press of G. P. Putnam's Sons. The results of 

 Estabrook's investigations appear as a publica- 

 tion of the Carnegie Institution, Washington, 

 D.C. The contrasting records of the two fam- 

 ilies are given below : 



Jonathan Edwards' Descendants 



1,394 descendants traced in 1900 

 Not a pauper among them but many professional 

 men, including: 

 60 physicians 



