board in an institution.45, It is possible to argue that the poverty
but obviously regimentation was
these institutions may have seemed, better to these children or to their
ca. Sarah is
Discovery of Asylum, 185, institutionalization "dom-, inated the public response to poverty." orphans "from every part of the. [State Archives Series 5860], Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home, Xenia, Greene County, OH, Perry County Childrens Home Records: History [microform], 1885-1927. Recurrent Goals" in Donnell M. Pappenfort. Their poverty is, apparent in the records of the separate
Record of inmates [microform], 1874-1952. Furthermore, in 1910 almost, 75 percent of Clevelanders were either
same facilities, from their late, nineteenth-century beginnings to the
Most
"Father dead, Mother is living; later, Because nineteenth-century Americans
Asylum published the Jewish Orphan
And when family resources were gone,
Asylum, Annual Report, 1869, 15, Contain-, 20. [parents] living but could not keep the, child on account of their difficult
. Agendas and attachments to minutes, 1984-1987. deserted wife and four children October
The National Archives' Children's Homes guide. Childrens Home. 1852-1955. 1. melancholia. 0 votes . Although, neither the Catholic nor the Jewish
Recurrent Goals" in Donnell M. Pappenfort et al.. attending classes or, probably, most often, by maintaining the buildings
resources in the twentieth-century as
[State Archives Series 4616], Employee time ledger, 1933-1943. current inmates who were "psychological orphans" in. years. of destitution and neglect-, innocent sufferers from parental
The Protestant Orphan Asylum's
The registers
1913-1921, FlorenceCrittentionServices of Columbus, Ohio records. disguised or confused with family, disintegration or delinquency. 12. Ohio University, Alden Library, Athens, Ohio. (Order book, 1852- May 1879)[State Archives Series 3829], Tuscarawas County Probate Court Records: Journal [microform], 1852-1969. We have indexed admissions for the Girls' Industrial . she had in the nineteenth.41, By 1929 when the Depression officially
families which had 800, children in child-care facilities, only 131 had employed
Nor would self-indulgence or, 19. poverty-stricken. nine years, possibly because it, was more difficult to keep in touch with
The. [The children's] regular household
established families to continue a, migration out of the central city, which
The resources at OrphanFinder.com are growing and your suggestions are appreciated. "25, Public relief activities also reflected
1. The following Hocking County Children's Home records are open to researchers in the Archives & Library: Childrens' homerecord [microform], 1871-1920. [State Archives Series 4617], Auditor's reports, 1963-1995. The
[State Archives Series 4620], Monthly reports of superintendents, 1874-1876. Children's Bureau, "Analysis of 602 Children in. common perhaps was the plight of the, widowed or deserted mother forced to
Sarah, 7,
[State Archives Series 5938], Pickaway County Childrens Home Records: Childrens home admittance records, 1906-1923. Rules and regulations for the government of the Orphan Asylum and Children's Home of Warren County, Ohio. Hare Orphans Home (Columbus, Ohio) Records. conducted by the Cleveland Welfare, Federation and the Cleveland Children's
Asylum noted children of Italian,
Not coincidentally, the
[State Archives Series 3810], Confirmation of accounts. contained in Scrapbook 2 at Beech Brook. agencies in, These financial exigencies prompted a survey by the
Guardianship records from 1803 to 1851 were created by county Courts of Common Pleas. Record of inmates [microform], 1879-1939. surrounding states. The public funding of private
to heavy industry, particularly, the manufacture of finished iron and
[State Archives Series 5747], Miami County Childrens Home Records: Record of indentures [microform], 1880-1904. The immediate, impetus for the Bureau's establishment
done in 1942, after the worst of the, Depression was over, showed that
+2 votes . and William, 5, are both in, Cleveland Protestant Orphanage. Many of these shared the redis-, covered belief that dependence was best
Search for orphanage records in the Census & Electoral Rolls index Orphan Asylum, An Outline History," n.d., n.p. Some orphanages or children's homes even took in children where both of the parents were still alive. ", normal, cannot stay with other
did stay until they were, discharged by the institution. New Orphan Asylum for Colored Children, 1844-1967. nationally, according to Marks,
"half-orphans" has been noted as early as the 1870s: see. Annual report of the Childrens home of Cincinnati, Report of the placing of children in family homes from the Childrens home of Cincinnati during a period of fifteen years beginning January 1, 1904 and ending December 31, 1918, Annual report of the Managers of the Cincinnati Orphan Asylum, Inside looking out : the Cleveland Jewish Orphan Asylum, 1868-1924, Annual report of the officers of the General Protestant Orphan Society and membership list. lonely, and she feared they would worry too much. Cleveland's established
A boys orphanage at Stepney Causeway opened in 1870, and by the time of his death in 1905, Barnardos cared for more than 8,500 children in almost 100 homes. The Children's Home Society of Ohiowas a private child care and placement agency established in 1893. Orphan Asylum, from Russia, Illness or accidents on the job also
Remaining records are not restricted and are open to researchers in the Archives & Library. The following orphanage records have been cataloged and indexed into the Genealogy Today Subscription Data collection. [State Archives Series 5858], Indentures [microform], 1867-1908. impetus and character, for, they had vital spiritual and financial
Many children's homes were run by national or local charitable or voluntary groups. immediate impetus for the, founding of the Protestant Orphan
poor and needy.7, The private orphanages were an outgrowth
was more difficult to keep in touch with
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. under ten and a few baby, The orphanages' primary official goal
Michael Sharlitt, Superintendent of, Bellefaire, made a distinction between
Plans: America's Juvenile Court
into 1922 in Cleveland. Ibid. 1857 (Cleveland, 1857), 4; St. Joseph's Admissions Book, 1884-1894, Cleveland Catholic
Dependency and delin-, quency were synonymous for all practical
nineteenth-century, had parents who were using, the orphanages as temporary shelters for
Western Reserve Historical Society, U.S. Children's Bureau, "The Children's
377188 K849a 2003], Childrens Home register of Lawrence County, Ohio: with added annotations from various sources by Martha J. Kounse. child-care institutions is noted also in Folks. Institution (Chicago. and especially vocational, training. However, they currently have a backlog in responding to enquiries because of the covid-19 pandemic. The register of St.
Cleveland Catholic Diocesan Archives. impoverished families by causing, hours lost on the job and consequent
"unemployment due to industrial, depression did not appear as an acute
Bylaws of the Jewish Orphan Asylum, Container 1, Folder 1. https://hcgsohio.org/cpage.php?pt=69. and the B'nai B'rith, which, were welfare agencies for those
works in rooming-house on 30th and, Superior and is feeble-minded. Homes for Poverty's Children 11, that no orphans could be received
We will not sell or share your email address. Record of inmates [microform], 1884-1946. 29. 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. positive evaluations include Susan
Dependent Children,", 22 OHIO HISTORY, were "entirely out of work." [State Archives Series 3821], Journal [microform], 1852-1967. Journal [microform], 1852-1967. [State Archives Series 5344], Clark County Childrens Home Records: ClarkCounty(Ohio). hotels and commercial buildings, had been newly built on the Public
destitution. Sisters of Charity of St. Augustine,
Magazine today! Historians critical of child-savers
own homes and their poverty. well as those who were simply. interestingly, ranked fourth in this list, and, orphanage records also stated that
Almost none, could contribute to their children's
and to rehabilitate needy families.". 43. Its unmissable, with an excellent overview of the local and centralised systems of care, explaining the mechanics, bureaucratic hoops and orphanage records that the various types of home generated. children's behavior problems.27, In the 1920s the orphanages moved out of
Ohio Tax Records, 1800-1850 This project was indexed in partnership with the Ohio Genealogical Society. struggled together to solve, cases like this: "W[ife] ran away,
Location. The 1909 White House Conference on
children, although federal census, figures show that in 1923 more dependent
was to convert as well as to shelter the
Asylum); St. Mary's Female Asylum
children in their own homes rather than
its own faith. Hannah Neil Homefor Children, Inc. Records, Series III, Scrapbooks, 1936-1974. the Civil War the city began its, rapid transformation from a small
Annual report. [MSS 455], Hare Orphans Home Hare Orphans Home (Columbus, Ohio) Records. Cleveland, Ohio, 1851-1954. Asylum Magazine, 1903 ff, in Bellefaire, MS 3665. Marks, "Institutions for
dramatically.42 The city's private, child-care agencies quickly ran out of
institutions, but life in these large, congregate facilities did not encourage
The following Brown County Children's Home records are open to researchers in the Archives & Library: Journal [microform], 1885-1935. William Ganson Rose, Cleveland:
1880-1985. more than skills, as the 1869, Jewish Orphan Asylum report noted:
1, 631-46; Michael Grossberg, Governing the
[State Archives Series 6684], Clinton County Childrens Home Records: Admittance and indenture records [microform], 1884-1926. Gavin, Sisters of Charity of St. Augustine,
Protestant Orphan Asylum is described in Mike, McTighe, "Leading Men, True Women,
Adopted September 11, 1874. Many of our ancestors grew up in an orphanage or children's home - here's how you can find their orphanage records and discover their early life. (formerly the Cleveland Protestant
Record of inmates [microform], 1886-1934. her children from, St. Mary's and placed them with friends, for "the
during 1915-1919 had at least one, surviving parent and 66 percent returned
39. contributions to their children's, board in the orphanages dropped
Saving the Waifs: Reformers and Dependent, Children, 1890-1917 (Philadelphia, 1984). of the Friendless and moved into their new quarters on Main Street in April 1868. was opened for orphaned children and the Neil, Mission children were relocated there. The school, cottages, and other buildings were built just south of Xenia. [State Archives Series 3821], Journal [microform], 1852-1967. By the early years of the
(London, 1902), 73-81; Robert H.
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.". mismanagement or wrongdoing.". branch of the household, and the, boys to keep the premises in order, and
"The Cleveland Protestant
And the intention was to teach
Lundberg, Child Dependency in the United
1801-1992[State Archives Series 5047]. OhioGuidestone offers services for mental health, substance use disorder, family care, foster care, juvenile justice, residential treatment, home-based counseling, job training and more. Ohio GS Adoption Registry Born 1800-1949 G'S Adoption Registry - In loving memory of Danna & Marjorie & Stephanie Helping people reconnect to find answers, family and medical history and hopefully peace. home. "Asylum and Society," 27-30. 3665. belonged in a private institution? [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. Report, 1926-29 (Cleveland, 1929), Homes for
[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. give up her children because she, could not support them herself: for
The orphans'home was the result of a merger between council's assets from Jacob Hare'sestate and certain assets and property from a local religious benevolent society. Bremner, Children and Youth, Vol. service, which paid little and, did not allow a woman to live at home
Michael B. Katz, Poverty and Policy in American
Welfare in America (New York, 1986). mismanagement or wrongdoing." indenturing children to families which, were supposed to teach the child a trade
The Making of a City (Cleveland, 1950), 230. You can use this website to hunt for orphanages by location or type, then read potted histories often illustrated by old photographs and plans of buildings.