The parents were of ordinary size, but had another child who was also a dwarf.
There are two species of dwarfs, the first coming into the world under normal conditions, but who in their infancy become afflicted with a sudden arrest of development provoked by some malady; the second are born very small, develop little, and are really dwarfs from their birth; as a rule they are well conformed, robust, and intelligent.
These two species can be distinguished by an important characteristic.
The rachitic dwarfs of the first class are incapable of perpetuating their species, while those of the second category have proved more than once their virility.

A certain number of dwarfs have married with women of normal height and have had several children, though this is not, it is true, an indisputable proof of their generative faculties; but we have instances in which dwarfs have married dwarfs and had a family sometimes quite numerous.

Robert Skinner (25 inches) and Judith (26 inches), his wife, had 14 infants, well formed, robust, and of normal height.
Celebrated Dwarfs .-- Instances of some of the most celebrated dwarfs will be cited with a short descriptive mention of points of interest in their lives:-- Vladislas Cubitas, who was King of Poland in 1305, was a dwarf, and was noted for his intelligence, courage, and as a good soldier.

Geoffrey Hudson, the most celebrated English dwarf, was born at Oakham in England in 1619.

At the age of eight, when not much over a foot high, he was presented to Henriette Marie, wife of Charles I, in a pie; he afterward became her favorite.