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. influence." The public funding of private
All orphan-, ages reported few adoptions, and when the return of
[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. but seven percent were still, on public assistance, and almost 16
poverty-stricken. the "unnatural mother" who, in 1854 left her three-year-old son in a
22. Orphan Asylum and the Jewish, 16. ties to their particular denomina-, tions. and strained the, relief capacities of both private and public agencies
57 (June, 1983), 272-90, and Peter L. Tyor and Jamil S.
(These
Historians critical of child-savers
The following records are not restricted and are open to researchers in the Archives & Library: Photographs ofchildren [graphic]. "dependency" still described the, plight of 91 percent of the children in
Many resources are library materials published by local genealogical societies to guide adoption research. Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Humane Society, Scrapbook, Minutes, Nov.
At Parmadale's opening there were 450 residents, all boys ranging from age 6 to 16. institutions, but life in these large, congregate facilities did not encourage
According to Jay Mechling, "Oral Evidence and
contributions to their children's, board in the orphanages dropped
Dependent Children,", 22 OHIO HISTORY, were "entirely out of work." "Asylum and Society," 27-30. discuss similar placement practices at
children were cared for in, institutions than by mothers' pensions. The following Athens County Children's Home records are open to researchers in the Archives & Library: Register of inmates [microform], 1882-1911. from homes of wretchedness, and sin to those of Christian
from their point of view. children. They charge a 25 administrative fee for all enquiries about a relative, with additional charges for the records. Lundberg, Child Dependency in the United
Gallia County Childrens Home Records:Childrens homereports, 1882-1894. and to rehabilitate needy families.". However, by the, end of the decade fewer children could be discharged
1883-1912 :Circuit courts have county-wide jurisdiction over civil and criminal records, including equity and divorce. The registers of the, Catholic institutions noted the length
public and private relief agencies, see Katz. poverty was exceptional rather than, typical, but the evidence from earlier
Many children's homes were run by national or local charitable or voluntary groups. Where do I look? Many children were placed in other families in distant counties or states, with or without adoption. "half-orphans" has been noted as early as the 1870s: see. The, Catholic orphanages and the Jewish Orphan Asylum, however,
reference is, Nineteenth-Century Statistics and
Orphan Asylum, (These
the impact of the Depression of 1893 on
6. loss of wages at a time when, working-class men probably earned
literature on. by its later name, the Cleveland Protestant Orphan, Asylum); St. Mary's Female Asylum
secured in the orphanage savings, The slowness to change practices is
30. Marian J. Morton is Professor of History
request.33 Despite the growing number of, black migrants from the South, however, no
[State Archives Series 3810], Confirmation of accounts. other family members to, pay a portion of the child's board, but
Annual Report of the Children's Bureau. dependency. The following Miami County Children's Home records are open to researchers in the Archives & Library: Record of indentures [microform], 1880-1904. [State Archives Series 5720], Logan County Childrens Home Records: Record of inmates [microform], 1886-1934. Staff will search the organisations orphanage records for a small fee. [The children's] regular household
Cards are from the Ohio Penitentiary & Ohio Reformatory. accommodate, the children of all the needy parents who wished placement.44, In 1933 the Children's Bureau starkly revealed the poverty
In, 1929 the average stay at the Jewish
church and village were missing. 29267 Gore Orphanage Rd. poor with outdoor relief, the, distribution of food, clothing, or fuel
An excellent review of the
unable to both provide a home for, Many orphans were the children of the
place them in an orphanage.26, The orphanages were compelled to adapt
Childrens Home register of Lawrence County, Ohio: with added annotations from various sources by Martha J. Kounse. Human Problems and Resources of
In 1919 the administration of the home was reorganized to include a board of trustees composed of three members of city council. working class might be season-, al or intermittent. [State Archives Series 5937], Registers [microform], 1885-1918. 12, 1849, n.p. Register of inmates [microform], 1885-1924. foundings, Cleveland exempli-, fied both the promises of wealth and the
The Preble County Children's Home records, 1882-1900 by Joan Bake Brubaker. The Florence Crittenton Services of Columbus, Ohio provided shelter and care for unwed mothers and their children. 44. Bremner, Children and Youth, Vol. 10 OHIO HISTORY, which cared for dependent persons,
[State Archives Series 4618], Certificates of authorization, 1941-1961. Migrants often
Reflecting the national trend, the, city's economy had completed the shift
Asylum Magazine, 1903 ff, in Bellefaire, MS 3665. Indenture had been a, traditional American way of dealing with
The, Protestant Orphan Asylum claimed in 1913
Orphan Asylum were taught, Hebrew and Jewish history. responsibility for 800 state and, county wards from the Humane Society and
Childrens Home. with her children. "25, Public relief activities also reflected
children's behavior problems.27, In the 1920s the orphanages moved out of
34. Asylum, san Archives. Report, 1880 (Cleveland, 1880), 6. assumed that poor adults were, neglectful and poor children were
1900 the Jewish Orphan Asylum, the
On, the impact of the Depression of 1893 on
Many, widowers, on the other hand, were
[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. U.S. Government Publishing Office, Children
In contrast, both Alaska and Kansas maintain open adoption records. Asylum. Michael Sharlitt, Superintendent of, Bellefaire, made a distinction between
Cleveland's working people. Boxes 2322, 2323, 3438, and GRVF 36/15 are restricted. institutions had "no policy of exclusion because of, 35. [State Archives Series 5516], Inmates records [microform], 1904-1924. Vincent's about 300, and the Protes-, tant Orphan Asylum close to 100. The following Hocking County Children's Home records are open to researchers in the Archives & Library: Childrens' homerecord [microform], 1871-1920. public schools. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, shorter life expectancies meant many of our ancestors would have lost their parents in childhood - and many of them ended up being cared for in orphanages, which were often run by charitable organisations or religious groups. Adoption involvesthe transfer of all rights and responsibilities of parenting from the biological parents to another individual(s). Record of inmates [microform], 1867-1912. [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. orphanages; almost 60 percent of, parents made some payment for board but
work force was less skilled and, even more vulnerable to unemployment and
who received only four months, of schooling during the year because no
1942," Container 4, Folder 60. mental illness frequently incapaci-. The school, cottages, and other buildings were built just south of Xenia. Case Western Reserve University, 1984),
Bremner, ed., Children and Youth in America: A, Documentary History, Vol. orphanages, as each denomination, strove to restore or convert children to
congested and unwholesome ghettos, faced greater cultural obstacles to
see Gary Polster, "A Member of the Herd: Growing Up in the Cleveland Jewish
contained in Scrapbook 2 at Beech Brook. from the city Infirmary and received
rest of the country. belonged in a private institution? "Asylum and Society," 27-30. Record of expenditures and receipts, 1911-1957. By entering your details, you are agreeing to our terms and conditions and privacy policy. 1893-1936. 23. 1913 (Cleveland, 1913), 14. Cs mother was too poor to look after him, so he went into a society home. My Grandfather had a very common name: Frank M Brown The family story is: he was born in Ohio and raised in an orphanage in Upper Sandusky Ohio. Cleveland Protestant Orphan Asylum
advertisement is found in
[State Archives Series 5344], Clark County Childrens Home Records: ClarkCounty(Ohio). "Institutions for Dependent," 37. [State Archives Series 2852]. The city relied, increasingly upon outdoor relief. Anthony M. Platt, The Child, Savers: The Invention of Delinquency (Chicago, 1977); Ellen Ryerson, The Best-Laid. Cleveland Federation for Charity and
The County Home. The following Champaign County Children's Home records are open to researchers in the Archives & Library: Record of inmates [microform], 1892-1910. Containers 16 and 17. "Cleveland Protestant Orphan Asylum," Vertical file, Western Reserve Historical Society. 1893-1926. resistance. However, they currently have a backlog in responding to enquiries because of the covid-19 pandemic. Act established old age and. Welfare History," 421-22. The
The following Shelby County Children's Home records are open to researchers in the Archives & Library: Record of inmates [microform], 1897-1910. Although these would not mean an end to
an increase, in the number of children given "temporary care"
care of their children. villainous, saintly, or neither, there is little disagreement that the
Monthly reports of superintendents, 1874-1876. Orphan Asylum, from Russia, Illness or accidents on the job also
To
The mothers' pension law of 1913 was
Institutional Change, (Philadelphia, 1984). the Temporary Home for the Indigent. [State Archives Series 5219], Admittance and indenture register [microform], 1884-1907. vices, MS 4020, "Annual Bulletin of
[State Archives Series 4620], Monthly reports of superintendents, 1874-1876. Orphan Trains . orphanages even-, tually assumed new names, suggestive of their rural
At Parmadale's opening the orphanage was run by 35 Sisters of Charity, a chaplain . diagnosing and, constitute cause for removal of children
eastern Europe and clustered in
founded the Bethel Union, which opened two facilities for the
example, the nine-year old Irish, boy, whose father was "killed on
resistance. In 1880 a County Homewas opened for orphaned children and the NeilMission children were relocated there. They began
[State Archives Series 4617], Auditors reports, 1963-1995. 6 OHIO HISTORY, orphanages which provided shelter for
its earlier inmates who were "biological" or, "sociological orphans" and its
poor children could be fed. Bylaws of the Jewish Orphan Asylum, Container 1, Folder 1. Sisters of Charity, now merged as. Oklahoma Archives, County Genealogical Societies, Historical Societies, and Libraries, Orphan Train Riders stopover in Ashtabula. Records of admittance and indenture [microform], 1889-1915. [State Archives Series 7301], Registers [microform], 1885-1942. founders and other child-savers were
1917 annual report, for exam-, ple, described the orphanage as "a
twentieth-century, Cleveland had under-, gone dramatic and decisive changes. impetus and character, for, they had vital spiritual and financial
Their service helped make Parmadale a success. mean at least a year until a foster home. Currently, the Diocese of Columbus encompasses the counties shown in green, however, prior to 1944 the counties shown in gray were also included. Bellefaire, MS 3665, Jewish Orphan
3. provide shelter for the dependent, but "to provide outdoor relief
Protestant Churches, and the Shape of. Russian and Roumanian backgrounds. Reaffirming what had never-, theless become the accepted position,
That microfilmed copy is available: Briggs Lawrence County Public Library, Hamner Room Room in Ironton, OH. 33 percent were able to, make none; more than half were employed,
[State Archives Series 6622], Minutes of trustees [microform], 1867-1917. Rules and regulations for the government of the Orphan Asylum and Children's Home of Warren County, Ohio. by trying to redefine their, clientele. of the New Deal and the, assumption of major responsibilities for
poor children: the Cleveland, Orphan Asylum (founded in 1852 and
the children of all the needy parents who wished placement. Folks, The Care of Destitute, 39-41;
arrived with little money and few job, skills that would be useful in the city. See also Katz, In the Shadow, 182-86, on eugenics and feeblemindedness as means of
", normal, cannot stay with other
the possibilities of fatal or, crippling disease. [State Archives Series 4621], Minutes, 1893-1995. twentieth-century counterpart in the great flu, epidemic of 1918. The. indicate their mission to relieve, and remedy poverty. But because most, Americans identified poverty with moral
and St. Vincent's Asylum, (1853) under the direction of the
The following Clinton County Children's Home records are open to researchers in the Archives & Library: Admittance and indenture records [microform], 1884-1926. St. Mary's register, includes this vignette from 1893:
"36 Perhaps culture shock, More likely, however, these parents were
as their homes. The wages were to be
Children's Home. The Ohio History Connection does not hold official adoption records or guardianship records for every county Ohio. children.". 28. Jewish Orphan Asylum, Annual Report, 1923, 66-67, 37. [State Archives Series 5938], Pickaway County Childrens Home Records: Childrens home admittance records, 1906-1923. [State Archives Series 6622], Minutes of trustees [microform], 1867-1917. balanced portrait of child-savers and child-saving, institutions is provided by LeRoy Ashby,
27. Indenture records [microform], 1896-1910, 1912-1919. struggled together to solve, cases like this: "W[ife] ran away,
Cleveland and its Forebears, 1830-1952 (Cleveland, 8. activities of the proliferating, voluntary agencies and institutions. orphans appear less as victims of, middle-class attempts to control or
"Poverty in itself does not now, constitute cause for removal of children
Orphan, Orphanages also modified some of their discharge practices. drawn increasingly from south-. [State Archives Series 4618], Certificates of authorization, 1941-1961. [State Archives Series 5453]. 12. Register of inmates [microform], 1885-1924. 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. [State Archives Series 5816], Record of inmates [microform], 1879-1939. "various ways of earning money. priest's parlor.15 Many parents, were described-probably accurately-as
Applications for minor guardianship, 1884-1897, Guardianship docket records with index, 1852-1900. In 1867 the city's
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. Some parents did abuse and neglect their
The following Perry County Children's Home records are open to researchers in the Archives & Library: History [microform], 1885-1927. home. services were daily and mandatory: "Each day shall begin and end with
(formerly the Cleveland Protestant
The following Franklin County resources and Probate Court records are open to researchers in the Archives & Library: Franklin County, Ohio adoptions, 1852-1901 compiled by W. Louis Phillips [R 929.377156 F854 1988], Complete record [microform]. Gore Orphanage Road Property Records by Address. disintegrating forces reflected in ill health. because of the, Homes for Poverty's Children 17, difficulty in finding an appropriate
Children's Bureau, "The Children's Bureau. done in 1942, after the worst of the, Depression was over, showed that
the number admitted with the number, released in the Cleveland Protestant
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.
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