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The Eugenics Record Office (ERO), located in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States, was a research institute that gathered biological and social information about the American population, serving as a center for eugenics and human heredity research from 1910 to 1939.
The Eugenics Record Office (ERO) was founded at Cold Spring Harbor, New York, by Davenport with initial support from Mary Williamson Averell (Mrs. E. H. Harriman) and John Harvey Kellogg, and later by the Carnegie Institution of Washington. [2]
In 1911, Rogers arranged for research to occur in Minnesota on the families of the "feebleminded". Two fieldworkers from the Eugenics Record Office in Cold Spring Harbor, New York came to Minnesota to study families of inmates at the Minnesota School for the Feebleminded. The results of the study showed an "appalling amount" of hereditary ...
The trustees of the library sold the building to the Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities (Now known as Preservation Long Island) after which they rented a 7,000-square-foot (650 m 2) space from the Cold Spring Harbor School District in the East Side School building on Goose Hill Road. In 1999, the school district decided not ...
The Eugenics Record Office (ERO) was founded in Cold Spring Harbor, New York in 1911 by the renowned biologist Charles B. Davenport, using money from both the Harriman railroad fortune and the Carnegie Institution. [15] As late as the 1920s, the ERO was one of the leading organizations in the American eugenics movement.
Arctic air spurs wild temperature swings in 1963 - In late January 1963, a cold front moved from Canada across the Midwest and settled in the Southeast, towing arctic air in its wake. What came ...
In 1904, [4] Davenport became director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. [8] He founded the Eugenics Record Office there in 1910, with a grant from railroad heiress Mary Averell Harriman, whose daughter Mary Harriman Rumsey had worked with Davenport at Cold Spring Harbor while she was a student at Barnard College.
AP . Under this fallen tree the decomposed body of a young girl was found, near Woodbine, Ill., April 26, 1958. The body is thought to be that of Maria Ridulph, 7, who disappeared Dec. 3, 1957 ...