Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled!
Through State Life Insurance, the whole population might be brought under government medical supervision. By periodical examinations the early beginnings of chronic diseases might be detected and thus arrested by timely instruction in regard to necessary changes in habits or occupations and every such case would be come an object lesson by means of which relatives and friends should be influenced to adopt preventives in time to avoid the same maladies. - John Harvey Kellogg

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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