Can you help decypher this Draft Card?

[Agneshill]

I'm trying to interpret what is written on my ancestor's WW1 Draft Card.

I'm particularly stuck on questions 7, 8, 9 and 12.

I can make out a few of the words but would like to have some confirmation.

Thanks.

[barryd]

7. A ... Photographer - also photography

8. J.A. Edison. Also partners with wife. Orange, N[ew] J[ersey].   Personal Business in N[ew] Y[ork]

9. Supports child with salary ... business partnership with wife

12. Financial Obligations to family .... Discharge ... 11years

Is he saying he previously went bankrupt in question 12? I could not give the answer on that one!

[Agneshill]

Thanks for your fast response!

7. It is certainly "A", (but can't make out the following two letters)..."PhoNographer" (He was Thomas Edison's assistant). " Also Photography".

8. "T.A.Edison - also partner with wife."
    "Orange N.J. - Personal business in NY."

9. "Supporting child and wife with salary and business partnership with wife."

12. "Financial obligations to family"... The next line is difficult. As question 12 is " Do you claim exemption from draft (specify grounds)?"........I thought he was just putting an emphatic "yes" at the end of the line? These three words underneath are puzzling!

Thanks for your help.


       

[Lisa in California]

This might sound a bit odd, but a possible guess...

12) claim exemption from draft which to me means why he can't serve; could it possibly be
Stomach derange 
Looking on the internet, definitions vary from bad digestion to stomach cancer.  According to the internet, another word for deranged stomach is cacogastric.

[Agneshill]

Yes, that looks good!

When I first looked at it, I did think the first word looked like "stomach".
Possibly "stomach derangement", the last three letters look like "ent".

Thanks.