 The county records show two hundred of her descendants who have been criminals. In one single generation of her unhappy line there were twenty children; of these, three died in infancy, and seventeen survived to maturity.  American Observer Medical Monthly - Page 2041875Full view - About this book
 | 1875 - 250 pages
...village in a county on the Upper Hudson, some seventy years ago, a young girl named " Margaret " was sent adrift on the casual charity of the inhabitants. She...criminals. In one single generation of her unhappy line there were twenty children ; of these, three died in infancy, and seventeen survived to maturity.... | |
 | State Charities Aid Association (N.Y.) - 1873 - 488 pages
...occasionally food and clothing from the officials, but never educated, and never kindly sheltered in a home. She became the mother of a long race of criminals...paupers, and her progeny has cursed the county ever siiice. The county records show (wo hundred 2 of her descendants who have been criminals. In one single... | |
 | 1875 - 796 pages
...occasionally food and clothing from the officials, but never educated, and never kindly sheltered in a home. She became the mother of a long race of criminals...criminals. In one single generation of her unhappy line there were twenty children ; of these, three died in infancy, and seventeen arrived at maturity.... | |
 | William Whitty Hall - 1876 - 902 pages
...occasionally food and clothing from the officials, but never educated, and never kindly sheltered in a home. She became the mother of a long race of criminals...criminals. In one single generation of her unhappy line there were twenty children; of these, three died in infancy, and seventeen survived to maturity.... | |
 | State Charities Aid Association (N.Y.) - 1880 - 794 pages
...years ago. Her name was Margaret and she was left adrift in one of the villages on the upper Hudson. She became the mother of a long race of criminals...cursed the county ever since. The county records show the names of 300 of her descendants who have been criminals. In one generation there were 20 children... | |
 | National Conference on Social Welfare - 1883 - 356 pages
...them to earnestness in regard to the separation absolute and unconditional of the criminally inclined. The county records show two hundred of her descendants who have been criminals. In one generation of her unhappy line there were twenty children, of whom seventeen lived to maturity. Nine... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Burnham - 1883 - 324 pages
...occasionally food and clothing from the town officials, but was never educated nor sheltered in a proper home. She became the mother of a long race of criminals and paupers, which has cursed the county ever since. In one generation of her unhappy line there were twenty children,... | |
 | 1884 - 930 pages
...prolific race. Besides great numbers of idiots, imbeciles, drunkards, lunatics, paupers, and prostitutes, "the county records show two hundred of her descendants who have been criminals." Was it kindness or cruelty which, generation after generation, enabled these to multiply and become... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1884 - 156 pages
...race. Besides great numbers of idiots, imbeciles, drunkards, lunatics, paupers, and prostitutes, " the county records show two hundred of her descendants who have been criminals." Was it kindness or cruelty which, generation after generation, enabled these to muliply and become... | |
 | 1882 - 682 pages
...occasionally food and clothing from the town officials, but was never educated nor sheltered in a proper home. She became the mother of a long race of criminals and paupers, which has cursed the county ever since. The county records show two hundred of her descendants have... | |
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