DescriptionHenry Crippen Neer worked as an obstetrician in New Jersey in the late 1800s. He recorded the births he attended, and included information about the birthplaces (nativity) of the parents. As this page from his obstetrical record book shows, many of his patients were foreign born. On this page he records delivering children to parents born in Denmark, England, Bohemia, Germany, Holland, Switzerland, Hungary and Alsace-Lorraine along with parents born in America.