Hansford: Mental Defectives in County H., Indiana 87 
care for himself in any way. He does not even respond to his 
name. His face and head remind one forcibly of his nephew, 
Leonard Gardner. He has a saddle nose, his skin is thick 
and yellowish, and his hair grows down in all directions from 
the crown in an inverted bowl fashion. 
Daniel, the fifth child of Otis and Catherine Johnson, lives 
in a neighboring town. Nothing is known of him except that 
he has been twice married and has 1 child. It died in infancy. 
He is 35 years old. 
Thomas Johnson was the fifth child of Mahlon and Bes- 
sie. Nothing is known of him except that he married Rachael 
Moore, by whom he had 4 children: Frank, James, Elmer, 
and Grade. These children are remembered by a prominent 
citizen of Stonetown who says that they were of 2 sorts. 
Frank and James were 2 of the ‘Vits” about town. They 
had no education, and one of them worked as a porter in a 
hotel where he was noted for the keenness and shrewdness 
of his replies. The former was a splendid baseball player in 
his youth. Elmer and Grade, the third and fourth children 
of Thomas, were very different from the older children. They 
were dull and apathetic. 
Frank died unmarried. James married and became the 
father of Samuel, Matthew, and Esther. Samuel resembles 
his father and uncle Frank in that he has a superficial wit 
and wisdom which is '‘catchy”. He is one of the men who 
makes a practice of follovdng up the college teams and is fore- 
most in the betting, carousing, and swaggering in the cities 
where these games are played. He is in trouble with the fish 
and game wardens most of the time. The laws are forgotten 
when he wishes to dynamite fish from a stream. He has a 
small son in school who will probably grow up into a man 
very much like his father. He is a lively little chap who is 
wide-awake all the time and always trying to see a joke on 
the other fellow. His teachers say that he is superficial in 
all his work. 
The sixth child of Mahlon and Dessie was Herbert John- 
son. He lived in 0. County where he married Nora Hender- 
son, by whom he had 4 children: Mary, Clara, Harvey, and 
Willie. Herbert then died and his widow married Ernest 
Heaps, by whom she had 4 children : , James, and Agnes. 
James had a twin who died. Nothing is known of Herbert 
