Pedigree 36 - Male

Title

Subject

Collaboration between the Eugenics Survey of Vermont and the Vermont State School for Feebleminded Children in the 1920s.

Description

This brief pedigree of describes a boy who was committed to the Vermont State School for Feebleminded Children when he was 12 years old. Orphaned by his father, who died on a town poor farm, his "Habits" are listed as "Masturbates and is destructive."

Creator

Eugenics Survey of Vermont.

Harriett Abbott, Vermont Eugenics Survey field investigator.

Source

Records of the Eugenics Survey of Vermont. Eugenics Survey of Vermont and the Vermont Commission on Country Life Records 1925-1956. Series ID: PRA-005. Vermont State Archives.

Date

1925

Rights

Open Access. Publication contingent on the removal of personal identifying information. All names have been redacted from the document.

Relation

The University of Vermont has created an online resource containing many documents relating to the Eugenics Survey of Vermont. The url is http://www.uvm.edu/~eugenics/.

Format

Typescript page following a simple format, with names redacted.

Language

English.

Type

eugenics