Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled!
It is better for all the world if, instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the Fallopian tubes.<br/>Three generations of imbeciles are enough. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Mary Williamson Averell

Daughter of banking family, funded eugenics.

Mary Williamson Averell
Birth 1851-07-22Death 1932-11-07
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Mary Harriman Finances The Creation of The Eugenics Record Office
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.
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