Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1898 — Big Families in Berlin. [ARTICLE]

Big Families in Berlin.

The Municipal Year Book of Berlin shows that one woman in that city, 41 years old, is the mother of twenty children. In 189 G there were five families with nineteen children, sixteen with eighteen, seventeen with seventeen, thirty-two with sixteen, sixtythree with fifteen, eighty-three with fourteen and 12(5 with thirteen. Two hundred pairs of Berlin parents counted a dozen children each, the mother in one case being only 2G years old. A mother of eighteen offspring was 35 years old, while women of 23 and 20 had borne eight and five children respectively.