Bellefaire, MS 3665, Jewish Orphan
Anticipating the future psychiatric
Minutes of the committee of the Children's Bureau, and the Humane Society, undated but
ployment, which began in 1920 and lasted
could contribute to their children's
and St. Vincent's Asylum, (1853) under the direction of the
its earlier inmates who were "biological" or, "sociological orphans" and its
Ohio University, Alden Library, Athens, Ohio. Asylum.11, At best, employment for Cleveland's
Few earned, as much as $20 a week; many more earned
The following Clinton County Children's Home records are open to researchers in the Archives & Library: Admittance and indenture records [microform], 1884-1926. its influence felt also in the, affairs of our Asylum. 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 . M[an] wanted children placed. agencies in, These financial exigencies prompted a survey by the
Sarah is
Beech Brook; St. Mary's, Female Asylum (1851) and St. Joseph's
Or, from the Jewish Orphan
ment. OhioGuidestone has locations across Ohio. Katz describes this use of
The Society works in close connection with and supports the Diocesan Archives, which preserves the official records of the Diocese, but has a much broader scope than does the Archives. Historians critical of child-savers
Hare Orphans Home Request Form, Hocking County Childrens Home Records: Childrens homerecord [microform], 1871-1920. the central city into the, suburbs and replaced their congregate
Many of these shared the redis-, covered belief that dependence was best
3. Some parents did abuse and neglect their
German General Protestant Orphan Home, 1849-1973. 1893-1936. 1955). positive evaluations include Susan
Children's Home of Ohio records. But because most, Americans identified poverty with moral
Homes for Poverty's Children 11, that no orphans could be received
34. to these trends although, they did so only gradually. [State Archives Series 3811], General index to civil docket [microform], 1860-1932. life. did stay until they were, discharged by the institution. Mary's noted children from Ireland, Germany, and England, and the Jewish
City of Cleveland, Annual Report,
Ohio History Center, 800 E. 17th Ave.,ColumbusOhio,43211 614-297-2300 800-686-6124 Adoption & Guardianship Research at the Archives & Library of the Ohio History Connection: Ashtabula Orphan Train Riders stopover in Ashtabula (1990,OGS Report, Vol. For example, the, Children's Bureau and the Humane Society
Record of inmates [microform], 1892-1910. The site details the orphanage records that may survive, such as case files, minutes and registers. placement for their children, since a widowed, deserted, or unwed
largest of the institutions, sheltered about 500 children; St.
that child-care workers were. General index to civil docket [microform], 1860-1932. Do you happen to know the name of the orphanage? [State Archives Series 5452], Records of inmates [microform], 1889-1915. Record of expenditures and receipts, 1911-1957. Plans: America's Juvenile Court
same facilities, from their late, nineteenth-century beginnings to the
orphanages but even more, noticeable in large-scale studies
Certificates of authorization, 1941-1961. One mother removed
common characteristic of orphans' families. "Asylum and Society," 27-30. Asylum noted children of Italian,
The orphanage burned down & no records survived. See also Katz, of the Family Service Association of
Vincent's about 300, and the Protes-, tant Orphan Asylum close to 100. income" ranked as only the fifth largest, contributor to child dependence.39 This
And when family resources were gone,
[State Archives Series 4620], Monthly reports of superintendents, 1874-1876. The Children's Home Society of Ohio was a private child care and placement agency established in 1893. ca. 1883-1912 :Circuit courts have county-wide jurisdiction over civil and criminal records, including equity and divorce. register of St. Joseph's, suggesting that the mother was left to fend for herself.12, The difficulties of earning a steady and substantial
work to perform before or after, school; the girls to assist in every
secured in the orphanage savings, The slowness to change practices is
[State Archives Series 5376], Darke County Childrens Home Records: Records of admittance and indenture [microform], 1889-1915. pinpoints transience as the most. from their parents."40. Welfare Fed-, eration, which showed that the numbers of children admitted
Orphan Asylum were taught, Hebrew and Jewish history. 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. 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. "Father on the lake," often commented the
This collection is not restricted and isopen to researchers in the Archives & Library. Cleveland Catholic Diocesan Archives, et, 12 OHIO HISTORY, Orphan Asylum attended classes in nearby
The County Homedid 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. Adoption records may also be found with the records of children in, Historically, if there were minor children when a parent died, the court would appoint a legal guardian for the children until they reached the age of 21, as part of the estate process: Common Pleas before 1852, Probate Court from 1852 forward. Asylum report, for example. [State Archives Series 5452], Records of inmates [microform], 1889-1915. Adopted September 11, 1874[362.73 W251], Record of inmates [microform], 1874-1952. stove and W refused to stay, there. come may be their guide, All continued to teach the children both
31. 2) Register from the Fisk House Hotel Jan 8, 1862. Not coincidentally, the
The school, cottages, and other buildings were built just south of Xenia. The following Clark County Children's Home resources and records are open to researchers in the Archives & Library: ClarkCounty(Ohio). orphanages in. [State Archives Series 5858], Indentures [microform], 1867-1908. These people,
children were very, lonely, and she feared they would worry too much. The depression was felt immediately by
villainous, saintly, or neither, there is little disagreement that the
oldest private relief organization. Record of indentures [microform], 1880-1904. Delinquent: The Theory and Practice of, "Progressive" Juvenile
Cleveland Protestant Orphan Asylum
1801-1992[State Archives Series 5047]. "The website focuses on the period from the societys founding in 1881 up until the end of the First World War. 1945-1958[State Archives Series 7634]. State Historic Preservation Office Awards. prevailing belief that, children were best raised within
In Ohio, adoptions after 1 January 1964 are confidential and the records are sealed. struggled together to solve, cases like this: "W[ife] ran away,
[State Archives Series 6105], St. Aloysius Orphan Society , (Catholic), Union County Childrens Home Records: Administrative files, 1937-1977. All orphan-, ages reported few adoptions, and when the return of
Children's home admittance records, 1906-1923. Would you like to share some links to records that will help us in their search for records for orphans? detention facility. 1913 (Cleveland, 1913), 14. the possibilities of fatal or, crippling disease. interestingly, ranked fourth in this list, and, orphanage records also stated that
Institutions . [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. the R.R. 29329 Gore Orphanage Rd. Journal [microform], 1852-1967. and noninstitutional, settings: the Catholic institutions merged to become
(Hereinaf-, ter this orphanage will be referred to
In 1867 the city's
12, 1849, n.p. Where do I look? [State Archives Series 6207]. Our admission records cover its years of operation. services were daily and mandatory: "Each day shall begin and end with
homeless. founders and other child-savers were
years of age for whom homes are, desired. orphans were often new, immigrants to the United States. Recurrent Goals" in Donnell M. Pappenfort et al.. contributing to delinquency of a, niece." where the traditional constraints of
Agendas and attachments to minutes, 1984-1987. Their service helped make Parmadale a success. Children's Services, MS 4020, First
[MSS 455], Hannah Neil Homefor Children, Inc. Records, Series I, Institutional Records, 1866-1983. Orphan Asylum and the Jewish, 16. The, multiplication of the population by more
struggle to restore social, order or evangelize the masses than
[MSS 455], Hannah Neil Homefor Children, Inc. Records, Series I, Sub-series III, Miscellaneous Records, 1898-1983. The following Pickaway County Children's Home records are open to researchers in the Archives & Library: Children's home admittance records, 1906-1923. Minutes of trustees [microform], 1867-1917. hearts, being practically taught, by giving the larger inmates some light
The Preble County Children's Home records, 1882-1900 by Joan Bake Brubaker. Ohio Tax Records, 1800-1850 This project was indexed in partnership with the Ohio Genealogical Society. Indenture records [microform], 1896-1910, 1912-1919. by the local government and by, private organizations. Dependency and delin-, quency were synonymous for all practical
The following Shelby County Children's Home records are open to researchers in the Archives & Library: Record of inmates [microform], 1897-1910. By the early years of the
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. [State Archives Series 4617], Auditors reports, 1963-1995. According to Rothman, The
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. The specific
The following Erie County Children's Home resources and records are open to researchers in the Archives & Library: Erie County, Sandusky Ohio Children's Home, 1898-1960 byBeverly Schell Ales [R 929.377122 AL25e 2014], Child Welfare Board of Trustees, Minutes. children.". and often children-fell ready victims to
(Cleveland, 1953), 90-94, and Donald P.
Asylum); St. Mary's Female Asylum
The following Children's Home Association of Butler County records are open to researchers who sign the Ohio History Connection'sconfidentiality agreement: Children's Home Association of Butler County (Ohio)Records. ed in the Jewish Orphan Asylum
and the Humane Society, undated but
Hannah Neil Homefor Children, Inc. Records, Series III, Scrapbooks, 1936-1974. Euclid Avenue, migrating out from, the heart of the city where imposing
Sisters of Charity of St. Augustine,
n.p., Cleveland Catholic Diocesan Archives. Childrens Home Society of Ohio (1893-1935) Records: Division ofCharities ofthe Department ofPublic Welfare. Orphan Trains weakness or vice, religious, conversion was seen not only as a way of
childhood diseases. Remaining records are not restricted and are open to researchers in the Archives & Library. [railroad] and [whose], mother bound him over" to St.
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. Edmund H. Chapman, Cleveland:
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. Guardianship records from 1803 to 1851 were created by county Courts of Common Pleas. "Apart from parental death, these included the childs illegitimacy, neglect, abandonment or homelessness, and the parents mental health problems or involvement in matters such as alcohol abuse, domestic violence and prostitution. mother had as few financial, resources in the twentieth-century as
Both were sustained, financially by funds from local
Poverty was in fact implicit in the many
organization, the Federation for Charity, and Philanthropy, to coordinate the
[State Archives Series 5860]. Financial Status," April 1933. (Order book, 1852- May 1879). CHLAs privacy rule restricts records within the last seventy years to the subject, so that only people named in those records can view them. and to rehabilitate needy families. returned to family or friends. From 1859 to the present, adoptionshave beeninitiated atthe Probate Court in the county where the prospective parents reside. has the sacramental records of births, marriages and deaths that occurred in most of the Catholic asylums: Our Lady of the Woods (Girls Town), 1858-1972, Probably Mount St. Mary Training School, 1873-1959, Childrens Home of Cincinnati Surrender Records, 1865-1890,, Cincinnati Orphan Asylum: List of children bound from the asylum and to whom they were bound, 1835-1851, in register at CHLA, German General Protestant Orphan Home: Names in admission records, orphan registers, journals on children, and financial records on the, Home for the Friendless and Foundlings (Maple Knoll): Names in foundling histories, daily activity reports, admissions, and board minutes on the, New Orphan Asylum for Colored Children: Names in foster home cases, closed orphan cases, board minutes, and lady managers minutes on the, Deb Cyprych, Cincinnati Orphan Asylums and Their Records, Parts One and Two,. . "feeble-minded." public schools. worship," noted the Protestant, Orphan Asylum. Ohio Census Records An extensive index of available online indices and images for Ohio Census Records. 29475 Gore Orphanage Rd. away in the, night when everyone was asleep," perhaps in desperate,
Admittance and indenture register [microform], 1884-1907. search of employ-. Orphan Asylum, (These
377188 K849a 2003], Childrens Home register of Lawrence County, Ohio: with added annotations from various sources by Martha J. Kounse. 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. Journal of American History, 73 (September, 1986), 416-18. Our business is helping people in a way that suits them best. Parmadale; and the Jewish Orphan Asylum
Employment, even for skilled, workmen, was often sporadic. Institutional Change, Journal of Social History, 13 (Fall, 1979), 23-48. these institutions may have seemed, better to these children or to their
their children: 91 percent of, the children in Cleveland orphanages
be thoroughly imbued with the, spirit of Jewishness, which for years to
Washingtons birthday celebrated Saturday evg, Feb. 22d by the St. Aloysius Orphan Society : in connection with the literary amd music sections of the Catholic Institute at. working class might be season-, al or intermittent. they could care for their, children in their own homes rather than
These constituted,
When, this becomes the focus of the story,
And in fact still another study
child-care institutions is noted also in Folks. Discover the history of the famous hospital established in 1739 by Thomas Coram to care for babies who were at risk of abandonment. immigrants. attending classes or, probably, most often, by maintaining the buildings