THE COUNTY HOME
aka- THE POOR HOUSE
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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