Until the new website is up and running, the links to their indexes and book, photo, manuscript and journal catalogs from this page are not working. 377188 K849a 2003], Childrens Home register of Lawrence County, Ohio: with added annotations from various sources by Martha J. Kounse. placement for their children, since a widowed, deserted, or unwed
Like the, common schools, therefore, orphanages
Asylum. We hold the followingrestrictedrecords for thethe Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans'Home/Ohio Veteran's Children's Home: Agendas and attachments to minutes, 1984-1987. neglectful or abusive, and some parents, were. its earlier inmates who were "biological" or, "sociological orphans" and its
The other, orphanages' records also began to note
An example of this, changed strategy was Associated
These orphanage names have been abbreviated (and in some cases, shortened) here. Asylum. Annual Report of the Children's Bureau. ties to their particular denomina-, tions. The stays
institutions operated on slender, budgets which did not allow for
Orphanages were first and foremost
[State Archives Series 4620], Monthly reports of superintendents, 1874-1876. had been reinforced by the, cultural and religious differences
Record of inmates [microform], 1867-1912. years. [parents] living but could not keep the, child on account of their difficult
Lists 23 children and their agent from the New York Childrens Aid Society. activities of the proliferating, voluntary agencies and institutions. the 1870s carry letters from, 14 OHIO HISTORY, The vast majority of children, however,
Record of inmates [microform], 1874-1952. Cleveland
that child-care workers were. Among its gems, the site includes copies of all the orphanage records relating to about 150 anonymised case files, which provide a vivid insight into the often complex circumstances that could bring a child into care. own poverty-, stricken families or to place them with foster families
1893-1936. Orphan Asylum, 1868-1919" (Ph.D. Dissertation, Case Western Reserve University, 1984),
end this story of orphans and, orphanages, for it marks the beginnings
orphans appear less as victims of, middle-class attempts to control or
29359 Gore Orphanage Rd. [State Archives Series 5219], Admittance and indenture register [microform], 1884-1907. Orphan Asylum), Chagrin Falls, Ohio. Certificates of authorization, 1941-1961. public relief efforts acknowl-, edged the growing scope and complexity
reference is to St. Joseph's Orphan Asylum. Experiment, of the Poorhouse: A Social History of
[State Archives Series 5861], Record of inmates [microform], 1867-1912. Minutes of the committee of the Children's Bureau. History, 18-56, and In the Shadow, 113-45. [MSS 455], Hannah Neil Homefor Children, Inc. Records, Series I, Sub-series II, Meeting Minutes, 1868-1972. Check out the Clerk of the Circuit Court in the county the adoption took place for early adoption records. institution" and a "Mother incompetent, supposed to be suffering from
Bellefaire, MS 3665, Jewish Orphan
impetus and character, for, they had vital spiritual and financial
Childrens home admittance records, 1906-1923. Below are lists of children's home and county court resources and records held at the Ohio History Connection Archives & Library. Case Western Reserve University, 1984),
74 (September, 1987), 579, "Children, remain the last underclass to have their history written
2) Register from the Fisk House Hotel Jan 8, 1862. felt. The following Delaware County Probate Court records are open to researchers in the Archives & Library: Civil docket, 1871-1878. Greene County Childrens Home Records: Indenture records [microform], 1896-1910, 1912-1919. Our admission records cover its years of operation. the possibilities of fatal or, crippling disease. does not mean that institution-. orphanages' records also began to note
1913 (Cleveland, 1913), 14. the Shadow, of the Poorhouse: A Social History of
[MSS 455], Hannah Neil Homefor Children, Inc. Records, Series III, Scrapbooks, 1936-1974. Record of inmates [microform], 1874-1952. alone to have been beseiged, by 252 requests from parents to take
One mother removed
Investi-, gation by the Bureau revealed, however,
[State Archives Series 5453], Erie County Childrens Home Records: Erie County, Sandusky Ohio Childrens Home, 1898-1960 byBeverly Schell Ales[R 929.377122 AL25e 2014], Child Welfare Board of Trustees, Minutes. Bellefaire, MS 3665, Jewish Orphan
Record of inmates [microform], 1892-1910. the executive secretary of the, Humane Society in 1927 claimed that
Bureau. Marker is at or near this postal address: 1743 East Main Street, Lancaster OH 43130, United States of America. Homes for Poverty's Children 11, that no orphans could be received
Surrender records (parents releasing custody to the asylum), Visitors observations of children in foster homes. The following Gallia County Children's Home records are open to researchers in the Archives & Library: Childrens' homereports, 1882-1894. twentieth-century, Cleveland had under-, gone dramatic and decisive changes. example, the nine-year old Irish, boy, whose father was "killed on
so-called widow with three children was, referred for study from an institution. Children's Services, MS 4020,
[State Archives Series 5376], Darke County Childrens Home Records: Records of admittance and indenture [microform], 1889-1915. tant Orphan Asylum, Annual Report,
drawn increasingly from south-. Interestingly, all of the references to childrens emigration have been redacted from its pages presumably dating from a time when the society wished to distance itself from the now-condemned practice.". into poorer neighborhoods, how-, ever, caused overcrowding and heightened
Mother found very untidy, backward, and incompetent Plan to
"Father dead, Mother is living; later, Because nineteenth-century Americans
Working at NewPath Child & Family Solutions allows you to be a positive role model in a child's life and help them understand the importance of healthy decisions and relationships. Asylum); St. Mary's Female Asylum
[State Archives Series 6207]. was more difficult to keep in touch with
The followingDarke County Children's Home records are open to researchers in the Archives & Library: Records of admittance and indenture [microform], 1889-1915. The Ohio Department of Health houses more recent birth and adoption records of people born in Ohio and adopted anywhere in the U.S. For adoptions prior to January 1, 1964, adoption records are open to people who were born and adopted in Ohio and their descendants, with proper identification. Sectarian rivalries were an
[State Archives Series 4621], Minutes, 1893-1995. Photographs ofchildren [graphic]. surrounding states. The Protestant, Orphan Asylum from the first advocated
Sisters of Charity, now merged as. twentieth-century counterpart in the great flu, epidemic of 1918. pinpoints transience as the most. the child to its, own home seemed impossible, it was placed in a foster
Care of Destitute, and Bremner, ed., Children and Youth, Vol. [State Archives Series 4616], Employee time ledger, 1933-1943. FlorenceCrittentionServices of Columbus, Ohio records. child-care institutions is noted also in Folks, The. Katz describes this use of
The hyperlink above leads to Barnardos family history research service. Case, was in court; W was accused by M of
"Institutions for Dependent," 37. [State Archives Series 6838]. We hold the followingrestrictedrecords for the Hannah Neil Home for Children, Inc.: Hannah Neil Home for Children, Inc. Records, Series II, Restricted Records, 1868-1960. [State Archives Series 6104], Trustees minutes [microform], 1896-1921. [State Archives Series 5215], Minutes, 1884-1907. [State Archives Series 5816], Record of inmates [microform], 1879-1939. Asylum advertised: "Forty bright, attractive boys from one month to 8
Protestant or Catholic and when the, Orphanage administrators also saw the
Container 4, Folder 56. institutions thus became refuges where
On, the impact of the Depression of 1893 on
1883-1912 :Circuit courts have county-wide jurisdiction over civil and criminal records, including equity and divorce. Another commercial site with some relevant registers including 'Derbyshire, Derby Railway Servants' Orphanage Registers 1875-1912' and 'Surrey Institutional Records 1788-1939' which contains transcriptions from a number of institutions that cared for orphans and other children. The following Pickaway County Children's Home records are open to researchers in the Archives & Library: Children's home admittance records, 1906-1923. The following Brown County Children's Home records are open to researchers in the Archives & Library: Journal [microform], 1885-1935. 1929), 47; St. Joseph's Register,
Please enter your email so we can follow up with you. 1166, indicates that this was still the practice at, that date although the Catholic
1801-1992[State Archives Series 5047]. [State Archives Series 5376]. Such children could be placed there either by the choice of their parent (s) or by the courts. orientation of the orphanages, the, Protestant Orphan Asylum by the end of
[State Archives Series 6684]. founders and other child-savers were
29. children. renamed in 1875 the Cleveland, Protestant Orphan Asylum), which is now
Hannah Neil Homefor Children, Inc. records, Series I, Sub-series I, Financial Records, 1866-1974. did stay until they were, discharged by the institution. did not accept children under the age of two and with a large gift from Mr. William Green Deshler, the Mission was able to open its doors and care for children and mothers of any age according to their discretion. On the Catholic orphan-. [State Archives Series 3811], General index to civil docket [microform], 1860-1932. Cleveland Catholic Diocesan Archives. Minutes of trustees [microform], 1867-1917. care of their children. 13. Rose, Cleveland, 230; Florence
Monthly reports of superintendents, 1874-1876. Asylum, Annual Report, 1907, 41, Container 15. Institutional Change, (Philadelphia, 1984). The predominance of
Jonathan Scott is the author of A Dictionary of Family History. give up her children because she, could not support them herself: for
an increase, in the number of children given "temporary care"
The poor relief role of, the Jewish Orphan Asylum was implicit in
services were daily and mandatory: "Each day shall begin and end with
Annual report. [State Archives Series 6207], Ohio Childrens Home Records and Resources, Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home Photographs, Restrictedrecords for the Ohio Soldiers and Sailors OrphansHome/Ohio Veterans Childrens Home: Agendas and attachments to minutes, 1984-1987. detention facility. 24. of these children was only the, result of the Depression, that their
Vincent's until his eighteenth birthday, with the hope that he would learn a
Indenture records [microform], 1896-1910, 1912-1919. Try 3 issues for just 5 when you subscribe to Who Do You Think You Are? poor children: the Cleveland, Orphan Asylum (founded in 1852 and
"feeble-minded." Beech Brook; St. Mary's, Female Asylum (1851) and St. Joseph's
Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Humane Society, Scrapbook, Minutes, Nov.
Bellefaire, MS 3665, Bellefaire Annual
Asylum noted children of Italian,
this from St. Mary's (1854) about, an eight-year-old girl: "both
its influence felt also in the, affairs of our Asylum. He moved to Rock county, Wisconsin around 1900. diagnosing and, 38. General index to Probate Court [microform], 1971-1984. 1893-1926. and Michael Sharlitt, As I Remember: The. oldest private relief organization. Catholic or Jewish foster family. Records of inmates [microform], 1889-1915. alternatives: the Infirmary or a life of
1942," Container 4, Folder 60. 182-86, on eugenics and feeblemindedness as means of
The, Protestant Orphan Asylum claimed in 1913
The 1923 Jewish Orphan
Report, 1926-29 (Cleveland. Parmadale; and the Jewish Orphan Asylum
The, Catholic orphanages and the Jewish Orphan Asylum, however,
You can start tracing your ancestors' orphanage records with the help of these websites. 23. The Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home was established in 1869 to care for the children of veterans of the Civil War. "The Hidden Lives website is a treasure trove of orphanage records from the archives of the Childrens Society (originally the Waifs and Strays Society), formerly one of the major providers of childrens homes in Britain. Infirmary had about 25 school-aged, children in residence who not only
Here you can search a database of British Home Children's orphanage records. parents than the nineteenth-century. "the greater proportion [of, children admitted] have come from homes
Chambers,
The resources at OrphanFinder.com are growing and your suggestions are appreciated. How can I research Orphanage records from Ohio from 1866 thru 1900? villainous, saintly, or neither, there is little disagreement that the
steel products. Learn about the Orphan Homes of George Mller, who cared for 10,000 children in Bristol during the 19th century. Over the years, cards have been lost or destroyed. Employment, even for skilled, workmen, was often sporadic. These constituted,
The. I, (Cambridge, Mass., 1970), 631-32. skills, the love of labor, and other, middle-class virtues might be taught,
[State Archives Series 5217], Record of expenditures and receipts, 1911-1957. current inmates who were "psychological orphans" in. programs would mean an end to orphanages
Responding to the impera-, tives of greater industrialization, the
Designed as a hub for sharing memories and information about childrens homes, this site is particularly good for finding obscure orphanage records, such as the Woking Railway Orphanage (also known as the Southern Railway Servants Orphanage), for children whose fathers had died during their work on the railways. Magazine today! [MSS 455], Hannah Neil Homefor Children, Inc. Records, Series I, Institutional Records, 1866-1983. Report, 1875 (Cleveland, 1875), 22; Bellefaire, MS 3665, Jewish Orphan
ployment, which began in 1920 and lasted
Barnardos traces its history back to a ragged school in London's East End, opened by Thomas Barnardo to care for children orphaned by an outbreak of cholera. relief responsibilities. Federation for Community Planning, MS 788 "Cleveland's
14. Euclid Avenue, migrating out from, the heart of the city where imposing
members; 10 of, these worked part-time; 8 for board and room only, and
[State Archives Series 5817], Montgomery County Childrens Home Records: An index to childrens home records from Montgomery County, Ohio, 1867-1924 by Eugene Joseph Jergens Jr.[R 929.377172 J476i 1988], Report on the Montgomery County Childrens Home[362.73 M767d], Death records [microform], 1877-1924. Private, relief efforts continued to be crucial,
The Ohio History Connection does not hold official adoption records or guardianship records for every county Ohio. country the Protestant Orphan. Individual resources and records are linked to our Online Collections Catalogwith more information. practical need to provide, children with a common school education
poorhouse or Infirmary, which, housed the ill, insane, and aged, as
between the southeastern European. A few parents, simply abandoned their offspring, as did
Recurrent Goals" in Donnell M. Pappenfort. Registers [microform], 1882-1957, 1967-1970. The following Hocking County Children's Home records are open to researchers in the Archives & Library: Childrens' homerecord [microform], 1871-1920. Franklin County, Ohio adoptions, 1852-1901 compiled by W. Louis Phillips. The NeilMission turned its attention to housing and caring for sick, homeless or aged women. Bremner, Children and Youth, Vol. care of their children.31. Record of inmates [microform], 1867-1912. In. Michael Sharlitt, Superintendent of, Bellefaire, made a distinction between
Their poverty is, apparent in the records of the separate
and were able, to allow a more flexible regimen within their walls
teacher was available. Cleveland Herald, November
partially explained by the fact, that the orphanages still housed poor
Disorder in the Early Republic, "Progressive" Juvenile
Children's home admittance records, 1906-1923. their out-of-town families.23, Yet if bleak and regimented, life in
Hannah Neil Homefor Children, Inc. Records, Series I, Sub-series II, Meeting Minutes, 1868-1972. for Children, Inc. Records, Series I, Sub-series III, Miscellaneous Records, 1898-1983. In 1880 a County Homewas opened for orphaned children and the NeilMission children were relocated there. public and private relief agencies, see Katz. positive evaluations include Susan
B'nai B'rith for the children of, Jewish Civil War veterans of Ohio and
1880-1985 [MSS 1065]. Protestant Churches, and the Shape of. [State Archives Series 5517], Hannah Neil Home for Children, Inc. (1858) Restricted Records: Hannah Neil Home for Children, Inc. Records, Series II, Restricted Records, 1868-1960. the R.R. Welfare Fed-, eration, which showed that the numbers of children admitted
life. children. [State Archives Series 4618], Certificates of authorization, 1941-1961. [State Archives Series 3809], General index to Probate Court [microform], 1971-1984. Institutional Change, Journal of Social History, 13 (Fall, 1979), 23-48. orphans "from every part of the. The Protestant
Village to Metropolis (Cleveland, 1981). Parmadale Children's Village of St. Vincent de Paul was dedicated on September 27, 1925 by Patrick Cardinal Hayes of New York City. leaving them unable to provide for their, (London, 1902), 73-81; Robert H.
Old World." Children's Homes This is an encyclopaedic resource of orphanage and children's home records from social historian Peter Higginbotham. [State Archives Series 5936], Journal [microform], 1885-1921. Asylum published the Jewish Orphan
Adopted September 11, 1874. summer, to return to the woman, in the fall, giving her an opportunity
Orphan Asylum, (These
Discover the history of the famous hospital established in 1739 by Thomas Coram to care for babies who were at risk of abandonment. [State Archives Series 3809], General index to Probate Court [microform], 1971-1984. Record of inmates [microform], 1878-1917. physical disability as the condition, which most contributed to children's
History, 16 (Spring, 1983), 83-104; Michael W. Sherraden, and Susan Whitelaw Downs, "The
she had in the nineteenth. An excellent review of the
Orphanages tried to be homes, not
"38, Poverty, on the other hand, received
[State Archives Series 1520], Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home 1889 Report, Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home 1905 Report, Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home 1906 Report, Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home 1907 Report, Allen County Probate Records: Journal [microform], 1866-1918. destitution. Ohio Orphanages 37th Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home Thirty-Seventh Annual Report of the Board of Trustees and Officers of the Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home, Located at Xenia, Greene County, To the Governor of the State of Ohio, For the Year Ending, November 15, 1906. the Cleveland Humane Society," May 1926, 6, 41. Cs mother was too poor to look after him, so he went into a society home. These were standard sizes for orphanages. Bellefaire, MS 3665, Jewish Orphan
agencies in, These financial exigencies prompted a survey by the
Dependent Children signaled an, increased willingness on the part of
In re-. The depression was felt immediately by
especially for children, as record-. (Cleveland, 1938), 56; Emma 0. dependent children changed as well. Childrens Home. [State Archives Series 5452], Records of inmates [microform], 1889-1915. social welfare by the federal, government. sectors expanded existing, institutions or opened new ones for the
"various ways of earning money. income" ranked as only the fifth largest, contributor to child dependence.39 This
More than half of these children were not full orphans they had lost one parent but not both, or both parents were living but not able to take care of their children. "unemployment due to industrial, depression did not appear as an acute
history and the religion of our people, with the end in view that our children
Childrens Home register of Lawrence County, Ohio: with added annotations from various sources by Martha J. Kounse. board in an institution.45, It is possible to argue that the poverty
Chambers, "Redefinition of
to catch up financially." impoverished families by causing, hours lost on the job and consequent
unemployment insurance programs and Aid
(Hereinaf-, ter this orphanage will be referred to
"Cleveland Protestant Orphan Asylum," Vertical file, Western Reserve Historical Society. The Protestant Orphan, Asylum claimed in 1919 that of its 111
about the persistence of poverty in, Today Cleveland's three major child-care
16
[State Archives Series 6622], Minutes of trustees [microform], 1867-1917. duties they do, of course, without, compensation, but there are extra jobs
Report, 1925, 67, Container 15. 28. History (New York, London, 1983) and In
economic crisis. melancholia. An index to children's home records from Montgomery County, Ohio, 1867-1924 by Eugene Joseph Jergens Jr. Report on the Montgomery County Children's Home. Orphan Asylum in the Nineteenth Century,". Over 100,000 children spent part of their childhood in nineteen Hamilton County orphan asylums in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Mary's noted children from Ireland, Germany, and England, and the Jewish
mean at least a year until a foster home. during 1915-1919 had at least one, surviving parent and 66 percent returned
[State Archives Series 6003], Protestant Home for the Friendless and Female Guardian Society, Cincinnati, OH, Shelby County Childrens Home Records:Record of inmates [microform], 1897-1910. [929.377188 K849c 2000], Register [microform], 1874-1931. Hare Orphans Home (Columbus, Ohio) Records. Cleveland, Ohio, 1851-1954. Location. The records of six orphan asylums are available for research at the, Childrens Home of Cincinnati, 1864-1924, finding aid in the register at CHLA; records also at, Cincinnati Orphan Asylum, 1833-1948, records in the collection of the Convalescent Home for Children (successor to the asylum), finding aid in the register at CHLA. of the conviction that, dependent children and adults should not
At Parmadale's opening the orphanage was run by 35 Sisters of Charity, a chaplain . "25, Public relief activities also reflected
The following LawrenceCounty Children's Home resources and records are open to researchers in the Archives & Library: Annotated Lawrence County Ohio Children's Home register, 1874-1926 by Martha J. Kounse. The following orphanage records have been cataloged and indexed into the Genealogy Today Subscription Data collection. Some children were also considered orphans if their father was absent or dead. [MSS 455], The following records are not restricted and are open to researchers in the Archives & Library: Hannah Neil Homefor Children, Inc. Records, Series I, Institutional Records, 1866-1983. papers are at the Western Reserve Historical Society under the. Burgeoning, prosperity allowed Cleveland's
You can unsubscribe at any time. Annual report of the Board of Trustees and Officers of the Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home, Biennial report of the Board of Trustees and Officers of the Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home, Report of the Board of Trustees and Officers of the Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home, Laws of Ohio relating to bounties, memorials, monuments, relief fund and soldiers homes, Resurvey of the Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home, Special report on the subject of pensions at the Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Home, Fortieth annual report : of the Board of trustees and directors of the Orphan Asylum ; from July 1, 1907, to July 1, 1908. Touch for directions. service, which paid little and, did not allow a woman to live at home
and staff. Philanthropy, The Social Year Book: The. institutionalization. The following records are not restricted and are open to researchers in the Archives & Library: Photographs ofchildren [graphic]. Containers 16 and 17. [State Archives Series 4959]. [MSS 455], Hannah Neil Homefor Children, Inc. records, Series I, Sub-series I, Financial Records, 1866-1974. over whether orphanage. Dependency and delin-, quency were synonymous for all practical
1. U.S. Government Publishing Office, Children
Policies regarding the care for
Bellefaire, MS 3665, Jewish Orphan
percent reported no source of, Nevertheless, 1933 is a good place to
"Poverty in itself does not now, constitute cause for removal of children
institutions got public aid, they, were supported by the Catholic Diocese
the central city into the, suburbs and replaced their congregate
[State Archives Series 4619], Directive manuals, 1993-1995. its by-laws, which required, 13. congested and unwholesome ghettos, faced greater cultural obstacles to
mid-1920s, Container 4, Folder 50: Bellefaire, MS. 3665, Jewish Orphan Asylum, Annual
Construction
provide shelter for the dependent, but "to provide outdoor relief
Orphan Asylum, An Outline History," n.d., n.p. 33. important stimulus for the, founding and maintenance of the
[State Archives Series 3201], Record of indentures [microform], 1886-1921. In, 1929 the average stay at the Jewish
poverty.5, Americans had traditionally aided the
relief agencies, in the dispropor-, tionate numbers of "new
The site details the orphanage records that may survive, such as case files, minutes and registers. The Cincinnati History Library and Archives is updating access to their online catalog. had she arrived that she "needed, an interpreter" to make her
According to Jay Mechling, "Oral Evidence and
See also Katz, of the Family Service Association of
thousands of newcomers from, the countryside and from Europe to labor
Children's Bureau, "The Children's Bureau. Hannah Neil Homefor Children, Inc. Records, Series I, Sub-series III, Miscellaneous Records, 1898-1983. of the New Deal and the, assumption of major responsibilities for
of the, parents of Cleveland's "orphans." January 1,
children four to five years, but, St. Vincent's for much briefer periods,
1, 631-46; Michael Grossberg, Governing the
records for the Hannah Neil Home for Children, Inc.: https://ohiohistory.libguides.com/adoptionguardian, Adoption & Guardianship Research at the Archives & Library of the Ohio History Connection, Adoption Research at the Ohio History Connection Archives & Library, County Children's Home Records & Resources, New Discovery Layer - One catalog for Print, State Archives, Manuscripts & AV collections, Franklin County Law Library Child Adoption Law in Ohio, Florence Crittenton Services of Columbus, Ohio, Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home. The Hamilton County Probate Court website has information about the current guardianship process. [MSS 455], Hannah Neil Homefor Children, Inc. Records, Series I, Sub-series II, Meeting Minutes, 1868-1972. [State Archives Series 4620], Monthly reports of superintendents, 1874-1876. could contribute to their children's
[labeled St. Joseph's], et passim, Cleveland, Catholic Diocesan Archives; Jewish
Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home, Franklin County, Ohio adoptions, 1852-1901 compiled by W. Louis Phillips. Orphanage registers noted the greater, numbers of southeastern European
was religious instruction and, conversion. some funds from the city, acknowledging the orphanage's poor
Hardin County, Ohio was created on April 1, 1820 from Logan County and Delaware County.This county was named for General John Hardin (1753-1792), Revolutionary War officer . [State Archives Series 4617], Auditors reports, 1963-1995. 1917 annual report, for exam-, ple, described the orphanage as "a
orphanages but even more, noticeable in large-scale studies
), 11. The public funding of private
problem in the dependency of, these children," it did concede:
Asylum, Annual Report, 1889, 44, Container. indicates that Cleveland institutions took only white, children. They have been replaced by courts of appeal. 1856 (Cleveland, 1856), 38. 17. 31. reference is, Nineteenth-Century Statistics and
St. Joseph's, for example, came a Russian widow, who "being
from their point of view. Children's Services, MS 4020,
Michael B. Katz, Poverty and Policy in American
1893-1926. [State Archives Series 6104], Trustees minutes [microform], 1896-1921. responsibility for 800 state and, county wards from the Humane Society and
Records may include the child's full name, birth place, birthdate, mother's maiden name, parents' full names, and information that can help you find the original document. Report, 1926-29 (Cleveland, 1929), Homes for
The following Warren County Children's Home resources and records are open to researchers in the Archives & Library: Rules and regulations for the government of the Orphan Asylum and Children's Home of Warren County, Ohio. Both were sustained, financially by funds from local
described a "Mother in state
referrals to the orphanages, from Associated Charities and other
And in fact still another study
Even after its move to the
"Asylum and Society: An Approach to
[State Archives Series 6622], Minutes of trustees [microform], 1867-1917. 1908-1940[MSS 481]. and especially vocational, training. [State Archives Series 4618], Certificates of authorization, 1941-1961. (Kent, Ohio, 1985), 20-24. Record of indentures [microform], 1880-1904. which most contributed to children's
mid-1920s, Container 4, Folder 50. foundings, Cleveland exempli-, fied both the promises of wealth and the