Eugenics

After her husband died (who was also into eugenics) she gave a funding pledge ($15,000 a year) to the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory to start the Eugenics Record Office. She bought 80 acres close to the Cold Springs Harbor Lab.

Andrew Carnegie on behalf of the Carnegie Institution doubles the funding of the Eugenics Record Office by 10 Million Dollars.

While in charge of the Institution for Feeble Minded Children in Winfield, Kansas he Castrated 58 boys. And sterilized many other boys and girls.

The Institution for Feeble Minded Children give the following quote about Hoyt Pilcher stating he is a hero for castrating boys, and that they should be creating a monument to him rather than removing him from his position:
A great deal has been said in the political press and medial journals of our country about the unsexing [castration] of ... boys by Superintendent Pileher, the political papers censuring, and the medical journals sustaining him. As all forward steps have brought criticism to the person who had the courage to take them, so this human act has brought criticism to Doctor Pilcher. All that would be necessary to convince those most horrified by this act of the wisdom of it, would be to have known the boys before and after the operation. Those who are now criticizing Doctor Pilcher will, in a few years, be talking of erecting a monument to his memory

Holding the common belief of eugenics that anyone in prison is bad Sharp begins in 1899 using vasectomy on inmates (prior to this he was castrating them). This was an illegal practice prior to 1907 when Indiana became the first state to pass a law of compulsory sterilization.

The blood of the Nation: A Study in the Decay of Races by the Survival of the Unfit

While Governor of New Jersey Wilson signed a law to be added to Chapter 190 a three man board that would say if “feebleminded, epileptics and other defectives” should be sterilized. This board could also do the same to people in poor houses.

Poorly sourced book where he trusts the people he calls “feeble-minded” to trace back their own lineage. The photos of the “defective” people in the book have been doctored to a ridiculous state to make them appear ignorant and deformed.

John Harvey Kellogg founded the Race Betterment Foundation as a way to promote his views on eugenics.

This was the first meeting of the Race Betterment Foundation.

Van Wagenen a supporter of killing “undesirables” contracts Typhoid Fever - a disease commonly contracted because of poor hygiene, and contact with fecal mater.

Governor of Indiana Frank Hanley signs a eugenics bill into law that states that that any “feeble-minded”, poor people, or criminal can face compulsory sterilization.

After being elected to office Marshall halted all sterilizations being preformed in the state of Indiana due to a law that was passed two years prior. Around 2,500 were sterilized.

The first ever lethal chamber was installed in a house for stray dogs as a humane way to destroy animals, or as the patent stated it was “for the Painless Extinction of Lower Animal Life”.

Along with many other prominent thinkers of the time Darwin and Frances Galton (founder of eugenics) attend a Séance. Many people hold Darwin up as on of the fathers of current day science, yet around 15 years after Darwin publishes origin of the species he would publicly attend with a group of men trying to talk to dead people. One article does state that Darwin said it was ’all imposture’, yet the quote is very brief.

Other attendees: Author George Eliot, philologist F. W. H. Myers (who was so enthused by this experience he founded the Society of Psychical Research a few years later).