Salt Lake Telegram | 1902-02-19 | Page 4 | Gleanings from Various Fields

i GLEANINGS FROM DM L V VARIOUS FIELDS j LARGE FAMILIES Few fathers have such large families as the applicant for for- relief to the Birkenhead Birkenhead Bir- Bir Guardians who who stated that he was 70 years of age was the father of twenty-one twenty children the oldest of whom was 50 and and th the youngest an in in- in fant The man has married twice hence the case is not as remarkable an instance of a large family as those given by Thoresby in his HI tory of Leeds He cites the case of Dr Hudson Hudson Hudson Hud Hud- son Chancellor of York whose wife died in her thirty ninth ye year r having given birth to tw four twenty four ntY children Another long Was that of Jos Joseph Cooper belonging to the same town whose wife bore twenty-six twenty children cut but the most remarkable was that of William Greenhill of Langley Abbots-Langley in who Wh had no less than thirty nine children by r one wife France has need of such London London Chronicle