A business gentleman residing on Long Island has been
recently presented with a large family under rather astonishing
circumstances. He is now living with his
third wife, the other two having died
childless; but although his last marriage was less than four years ago
he has twelve children, all alive and well.
At the first birth his with presented him with one child, and the second
with two, and their third with two, at the fourth with three, and at the fifth
with four, each weighing over seven pounds.
Eight nurses are constantly employed in attending to the cares of this
promising family. The father is an
auctioneer.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 29, 1862, p. 3
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