Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1901 — Big Families in Berlin. [ARTICLE]

Big Families in Berlin.

The Municipal Year Book of Berlin, jn.it published, shows that one woman in that city, 41 years old, Is the mother of twenty children. In 1896 there were five families with nineteen children, sixteen with eighteen, seventeen with seventeen, thirty-two with sixteen, six-ty-three with fifteen, eighty-three will fourteen, and 126 with thirteen. Two hundred pairs of Berlin parents counted a dozen children each, the mother in que case being only 26 years old. A raother of eighteen offspring was 35 years old, while, womerf of 23 and 20 had borne eight and five children, respectively.