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Indiana University Studies 
Arthur married Agnes Stewart, who was insane. By her 
he had 2 children, John and Helen. 
John Woods, the first child of George and Agnes, lives 
on Lookout Ridge. He is a tall, spare man of 41 years, poorly 
developed, has an enlarged asymmetrical cranium, face 
seamed with wrinkles, external strabismus, elementary hands, 
and a negroid nose. He says that he was “edicated” for a 
teacher and therefore teaches his boy at home. The son can 
count a little and knows a part of his letters, which is quite a 
bit for a ten-year-old boy. 
John’s father owned quite a large farm on a part of which 
John now lives. The house in which he lives is a desolate 
looking place, containing no carpets, curtains, or blinds in 
any of the 4 rooms. The place is filthy dirty, the bad odor 
of which can be detected from the road. The windowpanes 
are broken and covered with tin or stuffed with rags. 
John’s wife was a Sanders girl from Harrisburg and a 
cousin of the Martins of that place, who are high-grade 
morons. Mrs. Woods and her sisters, Laura and Anna 
Sanders, are also morons. Their mother was Estie Fellows, 
who is related to Robert Merker, a patient in the Southeastern 
Hospital for the Insane. 
Floyd, the first child of John Woods, is feeble-minded. 
The other 3 children are decidedly inferior both physically 
and mentally. 
Helen, the second child of Arthur Woods, is 37 years old. 
She is skinny, has simian hands, external strabismus, asym- 
metrical face, and is very loquacious. She can neither read 
nor write. She married Walter Dobson, a feeble-minded man 
by whom she has 2 children, James and Bert. The whole 
family is noted for being peculiar. They own the little farm 
which she inherited, and together with the oversight of an 
old lady who lives with them (normal) they manage to make 
a fairly good living. 
James, the son of Helen and Walter Dobson, is 6 years 
old. He cannot talk plainly and did not walk until he was 
more than 4 years old. 
Will Woods, a cousin of John, is the illegitimate son of 
the sister of Arthur Woods by Gerald Keene, a prominent 
man of the community. Will was raised by a Mr. Harper. 
He married a Stone, and to them were born 6 children: John, 
