The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-01-21
TRACES ANCESTRY
OF RACE TO ORIGIN
Millions Descend From One
"SuperWOman."
MONEY GIANTS LINEAGE.
John D. Rockefeller and J. Pierpont
Morgan Have Blood of Buccaneer,
Sir Francis Drake, In Thor Veins,
Says DR.. David Starr Jordan, Who
ls Preparing Remarkable Book.

Sir Francis Drake, In Their Veins,
Says DR.. David Starr Jordan, Who
Is Preparing Remarkable Book.
Down at Carmel-by-the-Se where
poets weave thoughts Of fancy and
painters mix their oils, DR.. David Starr
Jordan is preparing bombshell, a lit
tie book, which has been finished with
loving care. When it is tossed on the
world a hole will be blasted in that
worlds opinion Of itself, for the book
will be the latest dictum of science on
"Who's Really Who In America"
The head of Stanford university is,
among other things, president Of the
eugenics commission of the American
Breeders association, and his essay
will be written ostensibiy for that or
ganization
Equipped with tones and charts and
aided by the most expert genealogist
on the Pacific coast, Dr. Jordan has
traced 1000 American families, repre-
senting several million of us, back
! through their ANCESTRY.
AS material for his book Dr. Jordan
has reached these findings:
First.-At least half the citizens of
this country Of English ancestry are
descendants of one "superwoman" and
members of one colossal family.
Second. - Isabella de Vermandois,
daughter of crusader, wife of the
Duke of Warren, living in the twelfth
century, is the common progenitor of
the teeming millions whom DIR. Jordan
stamps as the "fittest" of the English
speaking race.
Includes John D. and Morgan.
Third.-John D. Rockefeller and J.
Pierpont Morgan belong to this re-
markable family, and their millions of
poor relations" will now be able to
prove it.
Fourth. - Rockefeller and Morgan
have ancestral lines which also run
back to that prince of buccaneers, Sir
Francis Drake.
Fifth. - Washington, Jefferson, Lin
coin, the two Harrisons, Cleveland and
Roosevelt are shown to be quite def
nitely related.
Sixth. - President Emeritus Charles
w. Eliot of Harvard and Presidents
Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia,
the two Timothy Dwights, Mr.. Wool
sey of Yale and DR.. Jordan himself
happen to fall into a college president
trust, due to their common ancestor.
Seventh.-Virtually any family which
can trace its line back to Isabella De
Vermandos is mentally and physically
sound, and its progeny stand a more
than unusual chance to inherit the
earth.
Eighth.A-The mating of Mother Isa-
bella's descendants, DR.. Jordan declares,
is step toward the ideal of eugenics,
which is to apply the principles Of sci
entific animal breeding or plant selec-
ton such as practiced by Luther Bur
bank to the human race
Ninth.-True love, with the initiative
Of the individuals tempered by an un-
derstanding of eugenics, is far and
away better method of bringing about
this selective ideal than a resort to
state regulation of parental interfer-
ence.
Tenth.-Luther Burbank's own line
has not yet been shown to run back to
Mother Isabella, and the greatest liv-
Ing exponent of applied eugenics may
himself not be included in DR.. Jordan's
list of the "fittest."
Some of Family Names.
DIR. Jordan discussed his researches
and his aims sitting near an open wood
fire within sound of the Carmel surf.
Taking the Duchess of Warren as
touchstone, he has traced to her thou
sand American families. Here are some
of the families whom he stamps as un-
usually SIT" as he announced them
offhand from memory:
Page, Lee, Drake, Bacon, Granville,
Howard, Courtney, Stuart, Carol,
Blair, Worth, Hawley, Waldo, Durkee,
Wight, Lake, Benedict and Davenport