Austrian family had 69 children (1925 article)
Payette Enterprise
Payette, Idaho
Nov. 25, 1925FATHER OF 87 CHILDREN
BERLIN-The story of a man who twice married, at 76 is the father of 87 children, 84 of whom are living, is reported by a Vienna medical association journal.
Bernard Scheinberg, living near the German border, had 69 children by his first wife who died at the age of 56, the journal says. Not one was a single birth. There were four quadruplets, seven triplets and 16 twins. Sixty-seven of the children are living, but he admits having lost count of the grandchildren. Scheinberg’s second marriage at the age of 57 was blessed with 18 children, including two sets of triplets. His second wife is still living.
