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by James Otis Lyford
1912
by Duren James Henderson Ward
1927 · Denver, Colo. : Up the Divide Pub.
Inventing the Feeble Mind explores the history of intellectual disability from its several identifications in the United States over the past 200 years: idiocy, imbecility, feeblemindedness, mental deficiency and defectiveness, mental retardation, and most recently intellectual disability.
Edmund Greenleaf was born in Ipswich, Suffolk, England, in 1574, the son of John and Margaret Greenleaf. He and his wife, Sarah Dole, had nine children, ca. 1613-1631, all born in England. He was one of the first settlers at Newbury, Massachusetts, in 1635. He moved to Boston ca. 1650 and died there in 1671. Descendants listed lived in Massachusetts, New York, Illinois, and elsewhere throughout the United States. Record chiefly follows the lines of those who have the Greenleaf surname.