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Harry Laughlin and Charles Davenport, ca. 1913
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Chronicle>Threat of the Unfit>founders>
In 1910, Davenport obtained funds from Mrs. E.H. Harriman to found a Eugenics Record Office (ERO) at Cold Spring Harbor. Davenport recruited as superintendent Harry Laughlin, a Missouri school superintendent with whom he shared an interest in chicken breeding. The ERO became the epicenter of American eugenics – conducting family studies, publishing "how to" books and journals, training case workers, and amassing hundreds of thousands of pedigrees and articles.
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eugenics
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