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family. There have been several murders and a continuous 

 pauper and criminal record. There is much prostitution, 

 but Httle intemperance. 



''Brook had a son John, who was a Presbyterian minister. 

 He raised a family of 14 illegitimate children. Ten of these 

 came to Indiana, and their pauper record begins about 1850. 

 Of the ten, three raised illegitimate children in the fifth 

 generation." 



The families with which the Ishmaelites intermarried 

 (30 in number) came mostly from Kentucky, Tennessee, 

 and North CaroUna. ''Of the first generation — of 62 indi- 

 viduals — ^we know certainly of only three. In the second 

 generation we have the history of 94. In the third genera- 

 tion, we have the history of 283. In the fourth generation 

 (1840-1860) we have the history of 644. In the fifth genera- 

 tion (1860-1880) we have the history of 57. Here is a total 

 of 1,750 individuals. Before the fourth generation (from 

 1840-1860), we have but scant records. Our more complete 

 data begin with the fourth generation, and the following are 

 valuable. We know of 121 prostitutes. The criminal record 

 is very large, — ^petty thieving, larcenies, chiefly. There has 

 been a number of murders. The first murder committed 

 in the city was in this family. A long and celebrated murder 

 case known as the 'Clem' murder, costing the State im- 

 mense sums of money, is located here, nearly every crime 

 of any note belongs here." What a vivid picture has Mc- 

 CuUoch drawn of the influence on a community of its "bad 

 blood," forming an intergenerating, self-perpetuating, anti- 

 social class — anti-social because possessed of such traits as 

 feeble-mindedness, wandering mania, eroticism, and "moral 

 imbecility." How slow the community is to protect itself 

 by adopting some method of preventing their reproduction! 



