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58.
Letter, Alexander Graham Bell to Charles B. Davenport, 20 April 1916: APS B:D27 Davenport-Bell.
59.
Letter, Alexander Graham Bell to Charles B. Davenport, 18 November 1916: APS B:D27 Davenport- Bell. Letter, Alexander Graham Bell to Charles B. Davenport, 5 January 1917: APS B:D27 Davenport - Bell.
60.
Official Record of the Gift of the Eugenics Record Office,
pp. 21, 24, 25, 2S.
61.
“Temperament of the Negro,”
Eugenical News
Vol. IV (1919) p. 43.
62.
“Thalassophilia,”
Eugenical News
Vol. V(1920) p. 26.
63.
Charles B. Davenport,
Heredity In Relation To Eugenics
(New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1911; reprint, New York: Arno Press Inc., 1972), p. 6.
64.
Eugenics Record Office,
Record of Family Traits No. 40688:
MS. COLL. No. 77, ERO, APS Series I. Eugenics Record Office,
Record of Family Traits No. A:0772-I :
MS. COLL. No. 0772, ERO, APS Series I.
65.
Record of Family Traits No. 40688.
66.
Eugenics Record Office,
Family Tree A:0-3a:
MS. COLL. No. 77, ERO, APS Series I, A:01 #6,1921-1930.
67.
Charles B. Davenport and Harry H. Laughlin,
Eugenics Record Office Bulletin No. 13: How To Make A Eugenical Family Study
(Cold Spring Harbor, New York: Eugenics Record Office, 1915) p. 25: CSH.
68.
Charts and Measurements: MS. COLL. No. 77, ERO, APS Series I, A:01 #4 Development, 1922-1923. Letter, Brett Ramer to Charles B. Davenport, 15 June 1922: APS Series I, A:01 #4 Development, 1922-1923.
69.
Mrs. Anna Wendt Finlayson,
Eugenical Record Office Bulletin No. 15: The Dack Family, A Study in Hereditary Lack of Emotional Control
(Cold Spring Harbor, NY: Eugenical Record Office, 1916) p. 11. Henry H. Goddard,
The Kallikak Family: A Study in the Heredity of Feeble-Mindedness
(Vineland, New Jersey: 1913), p. x. Eugenics Survey of Vermont, “Farm No. 47, Family Name Irving, Mark,”
Jamaica Emigrants Questionnaire Interviews:
Vermont PRA-15.
70.
Davenport and Laughlin,
Eugenics Record Office Bulletin No. 13,
pp. 4, 28.
71.
US Const, Preamble.
72.
J. David Smith and K. Ray Nelson,
The Sterilization of Carrie Buck
(Far Hills, NJ: New Horizon Press, 1989) pp. 14, 30.
73.
Departments of the Central State Hospital for Epileptic and Feeble-Minded at Petersburg, Virginia, “Official Interrogatories and Papers of Commitment”: Emma Buck files, Central Virginia Training Center Archives.
74.
Smith, pp. 15-16. “Official Interrogatories and Papers of Commitment.”
75.
Smith, pp. 1-3,5-6,18.
76.
“They Told Me I Had To Have An Operation,”
Charlottesville (VA) Daily Progress,
26 February 1980. Author’s Interview with former Central Virginia Training Center Superintendent K. Ray Nelson, 14 November 2002.
77.
Smith, pp. 17-18.
78.
Paul A. Lombardo, “Eugenic Sterilization in Virginia: Aubrey Strode and the Case of Buck v. Bell,” (Ph. D. diss, University of Virginia, 1982), pp. 177, 179, 180. “Order of Commitment of Carrie E. Buck,” Carrie Buck vs. Dr.J.H. Bell, 143 Va. 310 pp. 22, 25: Supreme Court of Virginia as cited by Lombardo.
79.
A.S. Priddy,
Biennial Report of tbe State Epileptic Colony
(Lynchburg, VA: State Epileptic Colony, 1923), as cited by Smith, p. 32.
80.
Priddy as cited by Smith, p. 32.
81.
Priddy as cited by Smith, p. 33.
82.
Unnamed Patient Hearing transcript, as cited in The Lynchburg Story, Dir. Stephen Trombley, Prod. Bruce Eadie. Videocassette. Worldview Pictures, 1993.
Poe v. Lynchburg Training School and Hospital,
518 F. Supp. 789 (W.D. Va. 1981).
83.
Lombardo, “Eugenic Sterilization,” p. 120. “Writ of Habeas Corpus, filed at the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia, November 24, 1917,” as cited by Lombardo, “Eugenic Sterilization,” p. 120.
84.
Lombardo, “Eugenic Sterilization,” pp. 120-121. “Writ of Habeas Corpus,” as cited by Lombardo, “Eugenic Sterilization,” p. 120.
85.
“Deposition of Willie Mallory, December 11, 1917” as cited by Lombardo, “Eugenic Sterilization,” p. 122.
86.
Lombardo, “Eugenic Sterilization,” pp. 124, 126-127.
87.
Author’s transcription, Letter, George Mallory to A. S. Priddy, 5 November 1917, Virginia State Archive File Drawer #383, Item #2711; also see Lombardo, “Eugenic Sterilization,” pp. 127-128; also see Paul A. Lombardo, “Three Generations, No Imbeciles: New Light on
Buck v. Bell,” New York University Law Review,
Vol. 60 no. 1, pp. 42-43.
88.
Letter, A. S. Priddy to George Mallory, 13 November 1917 in “Grounds of Defense, Willie T. Malloryv. A.S. Priddy,” February 16, 1918 (Virginia State Archive File Drawers #383, Item #2711) as cited by Lombardo, “Eugenic Sterilization,” pp. 128-129. Lombardo, “Eugenic Sterilization,” pp. 124-125. W.I. Prichard, “History - Lynchburg Training School and Hospital,”
Mental Health in Virginia,
Summer, 1960, as cited in Lombardo, “Eugenic Sterilization,” pp. 129-130.
89.
Letter, James DeJarnette to John Dickson, 24 October 1947 (Strode Papers, folder 30 14A), as cited by Lombardo, “Eugenic Sterilization,” p. 132.
Celebration of
Dr.
J.
S.
DeJarnette’s Fiftieth Anniversary of Continuous Service at the Western State Hospital,
 July 21, 1939 (DeJarnette Papers, Western State Hospital, Staunton, Virginia) as cited by Lombardo, “Eugenic Sterilization,” p. 132.
90.
Harry H. Laughlin,
Eugenical Sterilization in the United States
(Chicago: Psychopathic Laboratory of the Municipal Court of Chicago, 1922) pp. v, 6-50, 446-461. Also see Harry H. Laughlin,
Eugenics Record Office Bulletin No. 10B: II. The Legal, Legislative, And Administrative Aspects of Sterilization
(Cold Spring Harbor, NY: Eugenics Record Office, 1914) pp. 120-131.
91.
Letter, A.S. Priddy to Harry H. Laughlin, 14 October 1924: Carrie Buck File, Central Virginia Training Center Archives. Harry H. Laughlin, “Review of the Legal Procedure and Litigation Under the Virginia Sterilization Statute, Which Led to the Decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, Upholding the Statute,”
The Legal Status of Eugenical Sterilization
(Washington,
DC:
Eugenic Record Office of the Carnegie Institute of Washington, 1930), p. 10.
92.
Letter, A.S. Priddy to Caroline Wilhelm, 14 March 1924: Carrie Buck File, Central Virginia Training Center Archives. The Lynchburg Story. Letter, Caroline Wilhelm to A.S. Priddy, 5 May 1924: Carrie Buck File, Central Virginia Training Center Archives.
93.
Buck v. Bell, pp. 10, 12. Lombardo, “Eugenic Sterilization,” p. 183.
94.
Strode to Don Preston Peters, 19 July 1939 (Strode Papers, box 30) as cited by Lombardo, “Eugenic Sterilization,” p. 183.
95.
Priddy to Laughlin, 14 October 1924. Lombardo, “Eugenic Sterilization,” pp. 80, 184. Smith, p. 82. Lombardo, “Three Generations,” pp. 39, 55. North British and Mercantile Insurance Company, “Fire Insurance Inspection Report, Dee-Whitehead Building”: Central Virginia Training Center Archives.
96.
Letter, Caroline Wilhelm to A.S. Priddy, 15 October 1924: Carrie Buck File, Central Virginia Training Center Archives.
97.
Letter, A.S. Priddy to]. S. Dejarnette, 1 November 1924: Carrie Buck File, Central Virginia Training Center Archives.
98.
Priddy to DeJarnette, 1 November 1924.
99.
Buck v. Bell, p. 67.
100.
Buck v. Bell, p. 67.
101.
Harry H. Laughlin, “Analysis of the Hereditary Nature of Carrie Buck,”
The Legal Status of Eugenical Sterilization,
pp. 16-17. Priddy to Laughlin, 14 October 1924.
102.
Laughlin, “Analysis of the Hereditary Nature of Carrie Buck,” pp. 16-17.
103.
Laughlin, “Analysis of the Hereditary Nature of Carrie Buck,” p. 16.
104.
Laughlin, “Analysis of the Hereditary Nature of Carrie Buck,” p. 17.
105.
Lombardo, “Eugenic Sterilization,” pp. 208-210.
106.
Harry H. Laughlin, “Opinion of Judge Bennett T. Gordon of the Circuit Court of Amherst County, Virginia,”
The Legal Status of Eugenical Sterilization,
pp. 19-21. Smith, pp. 174-175; Lombardo, “Eugenic Sterilization,” pp. 210-212.
107.
Harry H. Laughlin, “Opinion of Judge Jesse F. West of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia, at Staunton,”
The Legal Status of Eugenical Sterilization,
pp. 30-37.
108.
State Colony for Epileptics and Feeble-Minded, “Minutes: December 7,1925,”: Central Virginia Training Center Archives.
109.
Liva Baker,
The Justice From Beacon Hill: The Life and Times of Oliver Wendell Holmes
(New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1991), pJ.
110.
Baker, pp. 3, 15. Catherine Drinker Bowen,
Yankee From Olympus: Justice Holmes and His Family
(Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1945), p. 62.
111.
David H. Burton,
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
(Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1980), p. 13.
112.
Burton, pp. 28-29. “Overview of ‘The Harvard Regiment,’” at
www.harvardregiment.org
. “Information on The Battle of Antietam,” at
www.nps.gov
. Baker, pp. 97-98.
113.
Baker, p. 151.
114.
Baker, pp. 144, 165-166.
115.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.,
The Common Law
(Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1881; reprint, 1923), p. I.
116.
Baker, pp. 253, 264, 267, 330.
117.
U.S. Supreme Court,
Members of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Author’s correspondence with Jacques Semmelman, Esq., 14 November 2002 and Lexis-Nexis search by Semmelman, 14 November 2002.
118.
Bowen, pp. 372-373, 446. Oliver Wendell Holmes,Jr., “Dissent, Abrams v. US 250 U.S. 616,624 (1919),
The Mind and Faith of Justice Holmes,
ed. Max Lerner (Garden City, NY: Halcyon House, 1943), p. 312. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. “Dissent, U.S. v. Schwimmer 279 U.S. 644, 653 (1928),”
The Mind and Faith of Justice Holmes,
pp. 327-328. Oliver Wendell Holmes, “For the Court, Schenck vs. U.S. 249 U.S. 47 (1919),”
The Mind and Faith of Justice Holmes,
p. 296.
119.
Baker, p. 3.
120.
Bowen, p. 187. Holmes,
Common Law,
p. 340.
121.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., “Natural Law,”
The Mind and Faith of Justice Holmes,
p. 395.
122.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., “The Soldier’s Faith,”
The Mind and Faith of Justice Holmes,
pp. 18, 20.
123.
Letter, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. to Dean Wigmore, 19 November 1915, as cited by Mark De Wolfe Howe,
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: The Shaping Years 1841-1870
(Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1957), p. 25.
124.
Letter, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. to Sir Frederick Pollock, 1 February 1920,
Holmes-Pollock Letters: The Correspondence of Mr: Justice Holmes and Sir Frederick Pollock
1874-1932
, ed. Mark DeWolfe Howe (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942), Vol. II, p. 36.
125.
Felix Frankfurter, foreword to
Holmes-Laski Letters Abridged,
ed. by Mark DeWolfe Howe (Clinton, MA: Atheneum, 1963), Vol. I, p. xvi. Letter, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. to Harold]. Laski, 14 June 1922,
Holmes-Laski Letters,
Vol. I, p. 330.
126.
Letter, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. to Harold J. Laski, 5 August 1926,
Holmes-Laski Letters,
ed. Mark De Wolfe Howe (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1953), Vol. II., p. 862.
127.
Holmes to Laski, 21 May 1927,
Holmes-Laski Letters,
p. 946.
128.
Members o[ the Supreme Court of the United States.
“The People’s Attorney,” at
www.library.brandeis.edu
. See William E. Hellerstein, “Review of The Forgotten Memoir of John Knox,” at
www.law.uchicago.edu
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Columbia Encyclopedia,
6th” ed., s.v. “McReynolds, James Clark.”

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