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The Jukes in 1915

Creator: Arthur H. Estabrook (author)
Date: 1916
Publisher: Carnegie Institution of Washington
Source: Available at selected libraries

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Agnes had five legitimate children. The first, VI 95, was not industrious and was addicted to drink; he married a harlot, later deserted her and went West, and is now in California. The second child died in infancy. The third, VI 97, was a laborer, ignorant, intemperate, and not inclined to work. He is married. The fourth child of Agnes died in infancy. The fifth and last child, VI 100, now 29, has average intelligence, is personally neat, and bears a good reputation. She has recently married, but has no children.

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Adelaide, V 35, the eighth child of Alice and Stillman, had a roving disposition. At one time she was an actress in a traveling show. She was a harlot before marriage. She had epilepsy. Her husband, Lester, V 36, can neither read nor write. He was a teamster and worked regularly for the same man for 32 years. He was formerly alcoholic and has been arrested several times for drunkenness. He is a member of a family noted for its viciousness, intemperance, and degeneracy. His brother was Hendrick, V 71, who also married into Ada blood. Lester is now living, and is 85 years of age. Several years ago he lost his right leg, as it was necessary to amputate it following gangrene. Lester married Adelaide in 1854, when she was 21. She died at the age of 57 of tuberculosis. Adelaide had nine children.

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The first, VI 103, born 1855, is an ignorant woman, but very kindhearted when anyone is sick. At one time she joined a traveling circus. She is very neurotic and has migraine and, when these headaches become severe, it is said that "she goes completely out of her head." In her periods of nervous excitation she shows an ugly disposition and continually finds fault and quarrels with her neighbors. Her husband, VI 102, was at one time part owner of a traveling circus, probably the one in which she traveled. He was later a blacksmith and worked steadily at his trade for many years. He was very intemperate formerly, but has acquired a house and land and is considered a good citizen. They had three children.

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The first, VII 117, born 1875, did the usual work of the public schools. As a young fellow he committed incest with his epileptic sister, VII 118. He started in business by himself, but, as he was not clever or foresighted, others took advantage of him by unfair means and, he failed several times, but he still persevered. He himself was tricky and had no ethical or moral sense. His first wife, VII 116, had attended school, but was mentally defective. Her father was considered normal mentally, but her mother and several sisters were feeble-minded. She became a harlot after marriage and divorced her husband, as he too was promiscuous in his sex relations and consorted with low women. He afterwards married his first cousin, VII 124. He was killed in a railroad accident during the course of this investigation. By his first wife VII 117 has had three children: a boy, now 18, VIII 57, who was incapable of carrying on high-school work but did well in the United States Navy; a boy of 14, observant and capable when he wants to be, but usually slow and sleepy in school, and sly and sullen at times; and a girl of 9, slow in actions and thought, but who "can get there if given time." There were no children by the last marriage.

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The second child of VI 102 and VI 103 was a girl, VII 118. While still young she developed epilepsy and with it mental deterioration and ideas that she was being talked about. She would then become excited and try to injure others. She has committed incest with her brother and also her uncle, VI 116. At 17 she was committed to a hospital for the insane for attempting homicide and threatening suicide. Here she died at the age of 31.

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The third and last child of VI 102 died while a young girl.

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The second child of Adelaide died in infancy.

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The third child, VI 105, born 1862, was quiet and refined in her manner when a girl. She became addicted to the use of drugs, and recently has become nervous and shows an excitable temperament. For many years she was a seamstress and was industrious and respected in the community. At 40 she married a sober, industrious laboring man and the two have a neat home in a respectable part of the city of Z. They have one child, a girl, VII 120, nervous, never for a moment, unable to concentrate her attention or to retain facts. She is now 12 years of age and does poorly in school.

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The fourth child of Adelaide died in infancy.

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The fifth, VI 109, is unindustrious and unprincipled and an alcoholic. He married VI 108, concerning whom I have no data, and had five children, of whom one died in infancy. After the death of his wife, he placed the two young children who were then at home in a Children's Institution and has been living with another woman, by whom he has one small child. He is spoken of as "a bad sort of a man," and has never been liked by his neighbors.

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His first child, VII 122, was placed in a Children's Home at the age of 9. Here she remained for a time, and then went to live with her aunt, VI 103. At 20 she became pregnant and married the father of her unborn child. For the first 9 months after the baby was born the family tramped the roads looking for work. Unsuccessful in this, the mother and child went to the almshouse for a month; while there she had her husband arrested for non-support. The case was dropped after he had secured work on the railroad, and since that period the family has been getting along well. She is a capable seamstress, has had little schooling, and is quick-tempered. She was accidentally shot recently by her younger brother, VII 126, and was injured in the back in such a way that she has become paralyzed from the hips down.

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