PERRY COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA
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REGISTERS, 1893

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The following information is *not* a complete listing from the above listed Register.

There are almost 50 columns on each page of this register, of which I will list below.  For the transcription of the register pages, I will only be listing the information which is filled in for each entry. 

Register#; Ward or District; Name; Age; Sex; Color (White, Mulatto, Black); Date of Admission; If committed, by whom; Place of Settlement; Nativity; If Foreigners (Time in U.S., At what port landed); Occupation; Education (Unable to read or write, Could write their name); Civil Condition (Was never married, Married, Widowed); Habits (Abstinent, Moderate Drinker, Intemperate); Moral Condition (No. times had been in jail, Had frequented house of Prositution) Beginning of 2nd Page.  Re-Admissions (No. of times received, Former Register #'s); Physical Condition (Able-bodied, Not able-bodied); Classification (Sane, Insane, Idiotic, Blind, Deaf and Dumb, Hospital Case, Vagrants); Inmates of Hospital (Disease, Result); Date of Discharge; How Discharged; Number of Days Supported; Cause of Pauperism; Remarks.

#575:  Michael Schwitzer; male; white; Jan. 5, 1893; Switzerland; Could write their name; Widowed; Abstinent; Not able-bodied; Sane; Left on March 22, 1893; Old Age.

#576:  Cath. Leedy; 65y; female; white; Jan 17, 1893; District; Penna.; Housewife; widowed; Abstinent; not able-bodied; Sane; Left on March 17, 1893; Old age; Died 1893.

#577:  Elizabeth Finley; white; female; Jan 24, 1893 District; Penna.; Could write their name; widowed; abstinent; not able-bodied; sane; Jan 14, 1902 went to state of Michigan; ___ widow's pension January 1902.

#578:  Sallie Shuman; white; female; Jan 26, 1893; District; Penna.; could write their name; married; abstinent; not able-bodied; sane; Jan. 14, 1902, went with Eliz. Finley to Michigan; ill treatment by husband.

#579:  Malinda Brickner; female; white; Feb 11, 1893; District; Penna.; Housekeeper; could write their name; Was never married; abstinent; able-bodied; sane; Removed by; Pregnancy.

#580:  (child of Malinda Brickner); April 13, 1893, born in Almshouse; Removed by; with mother.

#581:  Jacob Kuller; 78y; male; white; Mar. 21, 1893; District; Penna.; cooper; unable to read/write; was never married; abstinent; not able-bodied; sane; Died in Almshouse May 11, 1893; old age.

#582:  Margeret Rebecca Frank; 53y; white; female; June 10, 1893; District; Penna.; Housekeeper; unable to read/write; was never married; abstinent; not able-bodied; sane; Died Oct 7, 1908; No home.

#583:  Mary Clare/Clase; 57y; female; white; June 16, 1893; District; Penna.; housekeeper; unable to read/write; married; abstinent; able-bodied; sane; Removed by husband; ill treatment of husband.

#584:  Clara Clare/Clase; 14y; female; white; June 16, 1893; District; Penna.; Could write their name; able-bodied; sane; Removed by father; ill treatment of father.

#585:  Charles Straub?; male; white; Oct 16, 1891; District; Penna.; Laborer; Could write their name; widowed; abstinent; not able-bodied; sane; Committed suicide in Almshouse on Oct 17, 1891; Melancholy.

# 586:  W. L. Bair; 31y; male; white; June 8, 1893; District; Penna.; Laborer; could write their name; Married; abstinent; not able-bodied; Insane; Aug. 22, 1893, removed again to the asylum; Bro't back from Insane Asylum.

#587:  Alice Orwan; about 25; female; white; June 8, 1893; District; Penna.; unable to read/write; was never married; abstinent; not able-bodied; insane; Died in Almshouse on Oct 16, 1893; Insanity.

#588:  George Allen; male; white; June 19, 1893; District; Penna.; laborer; could write their name; Was never married; Abstinent; not able-bodied; sane; Taken to the Soldier's home at Hampdon Virginia.

#589:  Jane Trostle; 60y; female; white; June 26, 1893; District; Penna; unable to read/write; was never married; abstinent; not able-bodied; sane; Jan. 30, 1896 Died; old age and homeless.

#590:  William Stewart; male; white; June 28, 1893; District; Penna.; Tanner; could write their name; widowed; abstinent; not able-bodied; old age and no home.

#591:  Nettie Sheriff; 22y; female; white; July 3, 1893; District; Penna.; unable to read/write; was never married; abstinent; able-bodied; sane; July 28, 1893; removed by brother.

#592:  Andrew Sheriff; about 75; male; white; July 13, 1893; District; Penna.; could write their name; widowed; abstinent; not able-bodied; sane; Blind; Sept 15, 1897 Died in Almshouse; Old age.

#593:  Anne Bottles; 25y; female; white; Aug 1, 1893; District; Penna.; could write their name; married; abstinent; able-bodied; sane; Sickness.

#594:  Brady Gragor; 8y; male; white; Aug 26, 1893; District; Penna; able-bodied; sane; Removed and bound by Stewart Rubinson, Academia PO, Juniata Co., Pa.; Deserted by father.

#595:  Levi Sheaffer; male; white; June 1892 was born to Malinda Gragor in Almshouse; Died November 20, 1892 in Almshouse.

#596:  Annie May Dougherty; female; white; June 1, 1891 was born to Alice Miller (inmate); Removed by John Dele__ne Aug 25, 1893.


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