He was one of seven siblings to survive childhood.

But if an individual survived childhood, at 15 his or her average additional life expectancy would have been 45 years.

He was one of 21 siblings, but only five survived childhood, and he liked to say that he was the first of them to wear shoes.

There were five sons, only two of whom survived childhood.

Together they had two sons who survived childhood, and a stillborn son in 1866.