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CHAPTER IV
Pages 27-33

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From page 27...
... The probability is very strong that the deaf mute children of deaf-mute marriages will at some time or other make their appearance in the educational institutions of the country, and wo might reasonably hope to be able to trace the family relations from the published reports of the institutions. Unfortunately, in the majority ot cases, the information that can be gleaned in this way 18 very fragmentary and unceitain, for the names of the husbands and wives of the pupils are rarely quoted, so that it is impossible in the great majority of cases to trace the connections.
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From page 28...
... who mairied deaf-mutes She also had tfiree brothers aud one sister deaf aud dumb (George, Benjaniiu, Joseph L , and Rebecca) George mari led a deaf-mute (Sabrina Rogers)
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From page 29...
... I n another branch, the Reeds, the fatlier and his three children are mutes. Only a part of all these mutes have been at school, and it is diflBcult to trace n the scanty records the exact relationship between the different branches." The Adkms family, of Kentucky. -- This family was stated in 1853 to contain nine deaf-mutes.t The Grisson famili/, of Kentucky. -- I am indebted to the principal of the Kentucky Institution for the following very instructive particulars concerning this l a m i l y "There were three or four deaf-mute .brothers and sisters of this family who were pupils hero (Kentucky Institution)
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From page 30...
... One of his sons married his cousin, also a hearing person, and all of their five children are deaf mutes." In 1870 Mr. Benjamin Talbot, then principal of the Iowa Institution, published m the American Annals of the Deaf and Dumb (vol.
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From page 31...
... I have no information concerning the descendants. O Indicates a hearing person 9 Indicates a deaf mate = Indicates marriage.
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From page 32...
... . i , , 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 6 9 , ^ 9 9 Esi HFit "SVAKI'FII I u admitted 1SJ8, aged 11 jcars, hid ' one sistei one uncle, thi-ee COUSIUH iiid othoi i-ela tives dent iiid dumb The Seiders Family, The WUUamsonFamCbf, TTie Jdek Family, of 'Wtitdo'boro.llfe.
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From page 33...
... The fact that there are four generations ot deaf mutes m the Lovejoy family suggests the idea that some of the other faimhes may perhaps be descended from it through the temale line. Whatever the explanation, it is at all events reinaikable that so many large deaf-mute families should have originated in small places within a few miles of one another.
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