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We will next consider the descendants of the cousin-mating of Alfred, IV 11, and Dinah, IV 122. This group is particularly interesting because Dugdale has discussed it in his case 3, p. 21. Alfred, industrious, occasionally intemperate and the recipient of outdoor relief, married his second cousin, Dinah, an opium-eater, ignorant and not alcoholic. They had eight children. Their oldest, Alphonse, V 70, was industrious, acquired property worth $2,000, married, but had no children. He is now dead.

Achsa, V 72, the second child, is now living. She never had any schooling and has not improved herself mentally. She has always been industrious, and has a good reputation. She has a little property and receives a soldier's widow's pension. She married an industrious, intemperate man, Hendrick, V 71. This man, while intoxicated, killed the woman who attended the bar where he procured his drink and was sent to State prison for 2 years for murder in the fourth degree. He had five children, only three of whom grew up. The oldest, VI 231, an industrious, reputable woman, married and had one child who is now doing good work in high school. She is hypererotic. The next child, VI 232, is a laborer and is industrious, but unskilled and rather ignorant. He works at any odd job. He is a shy, inoffensive creature. He married a woman somewhat of his own type and has 5 children, 4 of whom in school are mentally slow and incapable of learning, although they try their best. For the past 5 years this family has received help from the town. The next two children of Achsa died in infancy. The last child of Achsa, VI 236, entered high school but left before graduation. At 19, while intoxicated, he committed an assault and was sent to the county jail for 5 days. He is now employed in a responsible position in the fire department of Z and bears a good name in the community. He is married to a neat-appearing, industrious woman, and has two small children.

Addie, V 74, sister of Achsa, was a hard-working woman. Nothing is known of her first husband. She acquired syphilis from her second husband and died of syphilitic consumption at the age of 28. Her one son, VI 238, inefficient, intemperate, syphilitic, and tubercular, died in the poorhouse at the age of 39.

Alta, V 76, another sister, is now living and bears a good reputation. Her husband was a soldier in the Civil War, acquired syphilis, and receives a pension. They have no children.

Horace, V 78, "idle and unmarried at nineteen," in 1874, worked steadily for many years in a keg factory. Although mildly intemperate, he seems to have always kept his family comfortably fed and clothed. He married a rather garrulous, though industrious, woman, who was also shrewish. This woman, Marie, V 79, is considered fairly intelligent and has had some schooling. Horace and Marie had 9 children, all of whom are steady, hard-working boys and girls. They tried hard to get along at school, but were unable to advance beyond the fifth grade. At the age of 14 we find them leaving school to go to work. All of them are of good repute and have married young. Horace died recently of paralysis.

With the exception, then, of one boy, VI 238, this consanguineous mating of Alfred and Dinah has produced an offspring characterized by the trait of industry. With a few exceptions it has also produced a low mental ability indicated by school retardations, which has hindered the individual in the full development of the industrious trait.

This ends the description of the descendants of the illegitimate child of Ada Juke.

VI. DESCENDANTS OF ADA'S LEGITIMATE CHILDREN. Chart 2.

We now turn to the study of Ada's legitimate posterity. Ada, after having had an illegitimate child, the founder of the illegitimate branch just described, married Lem, II 2, a man who is commonly reputed to be a lineal, although illegitimate, descendant of a Colonial Governor of New York. Ada and Lem had 4 children: Abe, Aaron, Aurora, and Aleene. The first, Abe, III 2, indolent, licentious, syphilitic, and a pauper, married his cousin, Cora, III 29, a daughter of Clara Juke, and a woman of good repute. All their children had constitutional syphilis acquired from the father.

The first child, Amy, IV 14, was a harlot, was intemperate, lazy, weak-minded, and kept a brothel. She was also blind. She married a man similar to herself and they had eight children, six of whom died in infancy. The other two children, both girls, were harlots and unable to read and write. One was Hannah, V 83, in the county jail for disorderly conduct and also, with her child, in the poorhouse. Her sister, Jennie, V 84, has also been in the poorhouse. These two are now dead and have left no known descendants.

Ann, IV 15, a woman of good repute, the second daughter of Abe and Cora, married in turn a cousin, Ben, IV 74, a descendant of Bell and Clara Juke. Ben was a laborer, somewhat industrious in spite of being nearly blind. He had a quiet disposition, was ignorant, and considered by the populace as mentally deficient. The result on the off-spring of two consecutive consanguineous matings is interesting. This group is of note also since Dugdale discussed them in his case 1.