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During the first half of the twentieth century, supporters of the eugenics movement offered an image of a racially transformed America by curtailing the reproduction of “unfit” members of society. Through institutionalization, compulsory sterilization, the restriction of immigration and marriages, and other methods, eugenicists promised to improve the population—a policy agenda that was embraced by many leading intellectuals and public figures. But Catholic activists and thinkers across the United States opposed many of these measures, asserting that “every man, even a lunatic, is an image of God, not a mere animal." In An Image of God, Sharon Leon examines the efforts of American Ca...
Mathieu Agé (fl. 1685-1761), a Huguenot, emigrated from France to Virginia about 1700/1701, married Ann Gandovin about 1714, settled in Powhatan County, Va. and later moved to Buckingham County, Virginia. Descendants (chiefly spelling the surname Agee) lived in Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Texas, New Mexico, California and elsewhere.