The people living in the New Jersey Pine Barrens were under attack from the science of eugenics and the Progressive politicians of the day. In June 1913, the Trenton Times reported from a Michigan medical conference.
“Dr. H. Goddard, of New Jersey, recently said regarding this matter: ‘The feeble-minded woman is more dangerous to the community than the feeble-minded man because she is more likely to find a mate than he is – possibly in the light of our present statistics in the neighborhood of…
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