ORPHAN
ARCHIVES: RECORDS & HOLDINGS
CONTENTS
ARCHIVAL
& ACCESS INFORMATION
FOR MANY U.S. ORPHANAGES
The following informational email was posted on JEWISH-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com
on March 4, 2006 by Joy Rich:
The Research Libraries Group has launched ArchiveGrid.
"ArchiveGrid contains nearly a million archival collection descriptions
held by hundreds of libraries, archives and museums."
"A search result page includes a list of archive collections,
a summary of the archives and archive locations that are represented in
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archives have material on the topic by reviewing the summary of archives
and archive location. Researchers who want more information about the archive
or who want to contact it can click on the name of the archive in the collection
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Access is free until May 31, 2006 at http://archivegrid.org/web/jsp/index.jsp
Taking advantage of the free search, I searched for Jewish and Hebrew
orphanages and found the following "brief listings", which may
be further accessed at the ARCHIVES*
listed below by clicking on the name of the archive itself. It will
take you right to the repository.
*Note: Center for Jewish History, Yivo
Institute for Jewish Research and American Jewish Historical Society are
all located at 15 West 16th Street New York, NY 10011
1. Records, [ca. 1924-1963] Jewish Family and Children's Service (Detroit,
Mich.)
Material concerns social service work with Jewish aged, children, refugees
from Europe, unemployed, and others. Correspondence, 1926-1963; minutes
of staff and committee meetings, 1924-1955; and case ...
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... the Resettlement Service Jewish Home of Shelter Jewish Child Placement
Bureau Hebrew Orphan Home Jewish ...
... Orphan Home (Detroit Mich) Jewish Unemployment ...
... (National Refugee Service) Yivo collections are in Yiddish Russian
Polish English Hebrew and other ...
2. Papers, 1937-1994 (bulk 1937-1938) Fisher, Harry, 1911-
The collection contains Fisher's incoming and outgoing correspondence
during his 18 months in Spain from March 1937 to September 1938. His letters
are addressed to his family in New York. Fisher ...
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... in the Hebrew National Orphan Home A communist and union ...
... alumni from the Hebrew National Orphan Home ...
... de la Repuxblica Brigada Internacional XV Hebrew National Orphan
Home (Yonkers NY) Veterans ...
3. Records, n.d., 1899-1922. Industrial Removal Office.
Contains Board of Directors minutes (1903, 1907), Executive Committee
minutes (1907), Removal Committee minutes (1903-1917), Annual Reports (1910,
1913), Monthly Reports (1901-1919), Monthly ...
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... & Hebrew Benevolent Society National ...
... Hebrew Orphan Asylum NY Hebrew Sheltering Guardian ...
... Fund Boston YMHA (Jacob de Haas) Brooklyn Hebrew ...
... Sufferers in Russia Chicago Hebrew Institute Chicago Jewish Agriculturists'
Aid Society Denver National ...
4. Guide to the Beth Israel, Congregation. San Francisco, 1863-1969
Scope and Content This collection documents over 100 years of Congregation
Beth Israel's history from shortly after its founding up to the merger with
Temple Judea in 1969. Official records are ...
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... Hebrew Orphan Asylum and Home Society) the Mount ...
... Pacific Hebrew Orphan Asylum and Home Society 1901 ...
... Pacific Hebrew Orphan Asylum the Young Men's ...
... School and Weekday Hebrew School programs Post-Bar ...
... Religion for the Hebrew Free School 1887 and 1900 ...
5. Boris D. Bogen Papers
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... BJSR [Hebrew Orphan Home of Philadelphia Report] 1924 ...
... Woodbine New Jersey 1896-1900 Instructor Hebrew ...
... of Jewish Charities 1913 Field Agent National Conference ...
... of Law Hebrew Union College 1929 Elected President of the National
Conference of Jewish Social Services ...
6. Trinidad, Colorado--B'nai B'rith Lodge No. 293
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... such as the Cleveland Jewish Orphan Home (Bellefaire) Leo ...
... 1923-1925 10 Cleveland Jewish Orphan Home (Bellefaire ...
... the Educational League and in nearby Denver the National Jewish
...
... Ben B'riths in office at the national or district ...
... General 1920-1931 13 Denver Colo - National Jewish ...
7. Inventory to the Papers of Henry S. Morais, 1877-1924
SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE The Papers of Henry Samuel Morais span the years
1877-1924, with the bulk of the collection (11") comprising chronologically
arranged correspondence. The majority of the ...
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... (Rosengarten Isaac) 6/27/24 JEWISH FOSTER HOME AND ORPHAN ...
... - (Fleischman SM) JEWISH FOSTER HOME AND ORPHAN ASYLUM ...
... of the Reverend Sabato Morais a well-known national Jewish ...
... yearsin the schools of the Hebrew Education Society and in the Hebrew
Sabbath-Schools ...
8. Guide to the Records of the Baron de Hirsch Fund, undated, 1819-1983*I-80*
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... ; Atlanta - Hebrew Orphans Home 1931 23 ...
... - Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society Orphan Asylum ...
... and Hebrew Quantity 109 linear feet (188 manuscript boxes ...
... Hebrew Benevolent Society Boston Hebrew ...
... Home for Working and Immigrant Girls Delaware ...
... 1880-1945 Subject Organizations Baltimore Hebrew Benevolent Society
Boston Hebrew Industrial School (later the Hecht House) Clara de Hirsch
Home ...
9. Isidor Goldberg Papers
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... was taken in and raised at the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Orphan
Asylum in New York He graduated from Hebrew Technical Institute in Mechanical
Arts ...
... and kits for home radios In 1930 a second plant ...
... in 1961 In 1928 he was elected to the Board of Hebrew ...
10. Robert Philip Goldman Papers
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... ) in 1943 and trustee of the Bellfaire Orphan Home ...
... an honorary DHL degree from the Hebrew Union College ...
... was active in the local state and national bar ...
... Society of Cincinnati and the National Alliance ...
... with Jewish affairs both at the local and national ...
11. Guide to the San Francisco Subjects Photography Collection
Scope and Contents Note Contains photographs and picture postcards depicting
scenes of San Francisco places, people and events. Each listing represents
a file containing from one to more than fifty ...
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... London-Paris National Bank--Photocopies Nevada Bank People's Home
Savings Bank San Francisco National ...
... and Electric Company Pacific Hebrew Orphan Asylum ...
... Hall Holmes Book Store Jewish Home for the Aged ...
... First National Bank Donohue Kelly and Company Drexel ...
12. Guide to the B'nai B'rith, District Four Records, 1863-1997, [bulk
1980-1996]
Scope and Content This set of records provides an extensive and detailed
portrait of what is arguably the most important Jewish organization in North
America. With a few exceptions, the collection ...
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... Orphan Asylum and a Home for Aged and Infirm ...
... Family Issues Committee (National) 199192 1/17 Jack ...
... Conference Nov 8 1993 2/5 National Staff Conference ...
... Governing Widow & Orphan Fu 1891 4/7 Hillel Foundation ...
... Lodge/Unit Fundraising Events 1989 22/1 National ...
13. Records, 1868-1972. Bellefaire Jewish Children's Home (Shaker Heights,
Ohio)
Correspondence, minutes, bylaws, reminiscences, mortuary record book
(1879-1919), autographs, annual reports, copies of Jewish Orphan Asylum
Magazine, scrapbooks, and photos, relating to the care of ...
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... ftamc Jewish orphanages Ohio Orphanages Ohio ...
... Ohio Child health services Ohio Jewish orphanages ...
... Bellefaire Jewish Children's Home (Shaker Heights Ohio ...
... of the repository's Cleveland Jewish Archives Organized in 1868
as Jewish Orphan Asylum by B'nai B'rith Grand ...
14. Records, 1874-1918. Jewish Orphan Asylum (Shaker Heights, Ohio)
Reports and booklet.
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... of Columbia - Washington DCLV95-A269 95797164 Jewish ...
... changed to Bellefaire Jewish Children's Home Reports ...
... input 19950307 vm08 NUCMC record Jewish orphanages Ohio Shaker Heights
Jews Ohio Shaker Heights ...
15. Jewish Children's Home of Rochester records, 1914-1964, 1914-1948
(bulk). Jewish Children's Home of Rochester.
Record of residents, 1914-47; ledgers; accounts; financial papers; and
clippings on later careers of residents of the home. Also minutes and accounts
of the Alumni of the Jewish Children's Home of ...
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... - Rochester NYRG242-A (NIC)NYMO752-880-0241 Jewish Children's Home
of Rochester Jewish Children's ...
... 15 cubic ft The Jewish Children's Home of Rochester was formerly
known as the Jewish Sheltering ...
... minutes and accounts of the Alumni of the Jewish ...
16. Minutes, 1922-1924. Orthodox Jewish Orphan Home (Cincinnati, Ohio)
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... Orthodox Jewish Orphan Home (Cincinnati Ohio) Minutes ...
... in the repository input 19950307 RONALD C NUCMC record Jewish orphanages
Ohio Cincinnati Jews Ohio Cincinnati ...
17. Records, 1874-1938. Jewish Foster Home and Orphan Asylum (Philadelphia,
Pa.)
Correspondence, minutes, letterbooks, scrapbooks, and other materials.
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... Philadelphia lcsh Jewish orphanages Pennsylvania ...
... Library of Congress - National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections
United States - District of Columbia - Washington DCLV95-A964 95798398 Jewish
Foster Home and Orphan Asylum (Philadelphia Pa ...
18. Collection, n.d., 1875-1915. Jewish Foster Home and Orphan Asylum
of Philadephia.
Collection consists mostly of annual reports. Also includes charter,
constitution and by-laws, employee lists and information, and memorial book
for Rose Krauskopf by S.M. Fleischman.
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... Center for Jewish History - American Jewish Historical Society United
States - Massachusetts - New York MAJV02-A558 I-300 Jewish Foster Home and
Orphan Asylum of Philadephia Collection nd 1875-1915 1 ...
... 20020801 Philadelphia (Pa) Orphanages Krauskopf ...
19. Records, [ca. 1924-1963] Jewish Family and Children's Service (Detroit,
Mich.)
Material concerns social service work with Jewish aged, children, refugees
from Europe, unemployed, and others. Correspondence, 1926-1963; minutes
of staff and committee meetings, 1924-1955; and case ...
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... Michigan Detroit Charities Jewish orphanages ...
... Center for Jewish History - YIVO Institute for Jewish Research United
States - New York - New York NXYH89-A276 (NIC)NYNE595-700-0364 Jewish Family
...
... the Jewish Social Service Bureau; affiliated ...
20. Records, 1916-1975. Hebrew Orphans Home (Philadelphia, Pa.). Alumni
Association.
Correspondence, newsletters, dues collection book, and other printed
materials, relating to the Hebrew Orphans Home and former residents.
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... Philadelphia Societies etc Jewish orphans Pennsylvania Philadelphia
Jewish orphanages Pennsylvania ...
21. Jewish Educational Loan Fund records, 1883-1991. Jewish Educational
Loan Fund.
The collection consists of records of the Jewish Education Loan Fund
and its predecessors, the Jewish Children's Service, Jewish Orphans Home,
Hebrew Orphans Home, and Hebrew Orphan's Asylum from ...
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... care Southern States Jewish orphanages Georgia ...
... Jewish Educational Loan Fund Jewish Educational ...
... files of residents of the Jewish Orphan's Homes ...
... and was home to hundreds of Jewish children from ...
... in 1930 In 1948 it became the Jewish Children's ...
22. Jewish child care associations photographs, [ca. 1850-1970]
Museum of the City of New York.
Copy prints of photographs depicting child care activities of several
Jewish child care associations in New York City such as Hebrew Orphan Asylum,
Hebrew Infant Home, Home for Hebrew Infants, ...
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... Charities Jewish way of life New York (NY) Jewish orphanages New
York (NY) Jewish orphans New York (NY
... Museum of the City of New York Jewish child care ...
... activities of several Jewish child care associations ...
... of photographs 11\a Jewish Child Care Association of New York ...
23. Care facility correspondence 1916-1940. Oregon. State Public Welfare
Commission.
Series documents communications between the Child Welfare Commission
and private care facilities (orphanages, unwed mother homes etc.), and state
institutions. Records include letters, inspection ...
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... Commission and private care facilities (orphanages ...
... for Girls; Jewish Shelter Home; Louise Home; Mother ...
... Child welfare Oregon Orphanages Oregon Children ...
24. Records, 1916-1978. United Brisker Relief (New York, N.Y.)
Statistics and official reports concerning conditions in Brest; correspondence
from organizations and institutions in Brest, 1919-1939, with members, committees,
and affiliated groups, 1920-1965, ...
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... Jewish orphans Jewish orphanages Labor Zionists New ...
... Center for Jewish History - YIVO Institute for Jewish Research United
States - New York - New York ...
... of societies of Jewish immigrants from Brest (Brisk ...
... 1920-1965 with national Jewish organizations ...
25. Care facility monthly reports 1930-1939. Oregon. State Public Welfare
Commission.
Series documents monthly reports sent to the Child Welfare Commission
from child care facilities. Reports include care facility name; superintendent
name; name, age, parents, and address of ward; ...
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... ; Christie School for Girls; Jewish Shelter Home; Louise ...
... Orphanages Oregon Unmarried mothers Oregon Chr ...
26. Harry Scherman family papers, 1893-1972. Scherman, Harry, b. 1887.
The collection consists of papers of Harry Scherman and the Scherman
family from 1893-1972. The papers include correspondence, diaries, and photographs.
The correspondence contains letters written by ...
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... while the boys were living at the Jewish Orphans ...
... Scherman family papers Jewish Orphans Home (Atlanta Ga) Educational
toys United States Orphanages ...
27. Papers, ca.1900-2001 (inclusive). Solomon, Jolane Baumgarten.
Many of the documents in this collection relate to Solomon's education
and to her relationship with her mother. The collection includes correspondence,
address books, journals and diaries, class ...
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... Children of the mentally ill Jewish girls New ...
... relationships Orphanages New York (State) Pleasantville ...
28. Juvenile Welfare Association
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... offering its services to Protestant Catholic and Jewish ...
... in orphanages social centers charitable institutions ...
... Nathan Jewish Orphans Home; 1924-47 45 ...
... ; Marks Nathan Jewish Home ...
... Jewish dialect 6 Lincolns birthday 7 Lists by dialect ...
29. United Jewish Orthodox Association records, 1923-1924. United Jewish
Orthodox Association.
The collection consists of records of M. Sheinbaum, Secretary of the
United Jewish Orthodox Association, from 1923-1924. The records include
correspondence, mainly between Sheinbaum and Rabbi ...
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... Jewish orphanages Georgia Jews Georgia Charities ...
... United Jewish Orthodox Association United Jewish ...
... Jewish Orthodox Association from 1923-1924 ...
... Jewish Orthodox Association records Ida Pearle and Joseph Cuba Community
Archives William Breman Jewish ...
30. Records, 1930-1949. Keidaner Association (New York, N.Y.)
Anniversary journals, 1930, 1940; and mostly bulletins of the association
and the Keidaner Ladies Aid Society, 1936-1949.
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... Kedainiai Women Jewish New York (NY) Societies and clubs Jewish
orphanages New York (NY) Friendly societies ...
... Center for Jewish History - YIVO Institute for Jewish Research United
States - New York - New York ...
... Landsmanshaft established in 1900 by Jewish ...
31. Records, 1947-1967. Busko B'nai B'rith Sick and Benevolent Association
(New York, N.Y.)
Constitution; minutes, 1947-1962; correspondence, 1957-1958; commemorative
book; photographs; memorial book, 1965; anniversary journals, 1952, 1967,
including those of the New York-Boston Busker ...
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... Jewish orphanages Jews Ukraine Busk Hasidism ...
... Center for Jewish History - YIVO Institute for Jewish Research United
States - New York - New York ...
... in 1911 by Jewish immigrants from Busk Poland ...
... Institute for Jewish Research New York NY ...
ORPHAN
TRAINS
The following is a partial list of Jewish institutions that Orphan Train
children came from in the New York area:
BERACHAH ORPHANAGE
BETH ISRAEL HOSPITAL
BROOKLYN HEBREW ORPHAN ASYLUM
EDENWALD SCHOOL FOR BOYS
FELLOWSHIP HOUSE FOR BOYS
HARTMAN HOME FOR CHILDREN
HEBREW ORPHAN ASYLUM
HEBREW SHELTERING GUARDIAN SOCIETY
JEWISH BOARD OF GUARDIANS
JEWISH PROTECTORY & AID SOCIETY
MOUNT SIANI HOSPITAL
NINTH STREET DAY NURSERY & ORPHANS HOME
These institutions, both public and private, and others of all denominations,
provided "orphans" to be sent west to new homes on the Orphan
Trains. Many children ended up in such states as: Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa,
Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, and South
Dakota.
Many Jewish children were also placed in non Jewish institutions such
as the New York Foundling Hospital. (see below)
Illinois became the new home of many of the children who rode the Orphan
Trains. Although Orphan Trains originated in other eastern cities, this
list of references focuses on three of the biggest agencies from New York
City:
New York Juvenile Asylum
New York Children's Aid Society
New York Foundling Hospital (Roman Catholic)
New York Juvenile Asylum
Children of Orphan Trains: From New York to Illinois and Beyond:
by Janet Coble, published by Illinois State Genealogical Society, PO Box
10195, Springfield, IL 62791-0195.
Index to the children mentioned in the Annual Reports of the New York
Juvenile Asylum.
1880 Federal Census of New York Juvenile Asylum and House of Reception.
Both were transcribed by Verna Drake and are presented by the Illinois State
Genealogical Society.
New York Children's Aid Society of New York
The Children's Aid Society of New York: An Index to the Federal,
State, and Local Census Records (1855-1925) by Carolee Inskeep, 166
pp, 1996, published by Clearfield Co., Inc., 200 E. Eager St, Baltimore,
MD 21202.
Represents 5,000 children who lived at the lodging houses run by the
CAS between 1855 and 1925.
New York Foundling Hospital (Roman Catholic)
The New York Foundling Hospital: An Index to the Federal, State,
and Local Census Records (1870-1925) by Carolee Inskeep, 350 pp, 1995,
published by Clearfield Co., Inc., 200 E. Eager St, Baltimore, MD 21202.
Represents 13,000 children who lived at the hospital between 1870 and
1925; introduction includes history of the NYFH with description of living
conditions and care
References include:
Federal Census 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920
NY City Police Census of 1890
NY State Census 1905,1915,1925
For more information on Orphan Trains see OTHER
RESOURCES Page (Section A) on this site!
ORPHAN
TRAIN RECORDS NOW OPEN
The home that sent children to the Orphan Trains in the late 1850's
has opened its records to the adult adoptees.
Contacts:
New York Foundling Hospital
Department of Closed Records
590 Avenue of the Americas
New York, New York 10011-2097
Another contact for records:
Children's Aid Society
Office of Closed Records
150 East 45th Street
New York, NY 10017
ORPHAN TRAIN
HERITAGE SOCIETY of AMERICA
NEW Address & Information:
Orphan Train Heritage Society of America (OTHSA)
PO Box 322
Concordia, KS, 66901-0322
Phone: 785 243-4471
Email: othsa@msn.com
Curator/Archivist is Stephanie Haiar
Membership is $25 a year.
Benefits: Crossroads magazine-reunions, meetings, submit information
for looking for ancestor.
Full access to open research materials, lending library, personal family
research at no addition cost.
ORPHAN TRAIN URL
LINKS
For other information on Orphan Trains and URL links to the Internet
please access
OTHER GENEALOGICAL RESOURCES Page on this web site
ORPHANS & ORPHAN TRAINS
ORPHAN
COURT RECORDS
[The following article appeared in the The Family Tree,
Section A, Page 29, December 1997/January 1998]
HAVE YOU LOOKED IN ORPHAN'S COURT?
Court records can be confusing, to say the least. Many genealogists
overlook the Orphan's Court records in their local courthouse or even those
maintained by the state. The legal term meant that the child had lost his/her
father. There was no age designation for the term. In many cases, the mother
was still living.
Orphan's Court records show the administration of estates and sometimes
appoint trustees or guardians for minor children or incompetent ones.
The records contain names, births, death deaths, marriages and sometimes
the maiden name of the mother. If a guardian is required, the mothers of
the family often requests her father or brother for the task.
With thanks to Kishwaukee Genealogists, via half a dozen other
publications.
ORPHAN COURTS DOCKETS
Probably the least used resource of all are the Orphan's Courts found
in many states. These courts do not deal only with small children without
parents, but also handle a variety of recordswhich can be most profitable.
First we must understand that the legal definition of an orphan is one who
lost his natural father. It is not tied to the mother or to any specific
age. Orphan court records, called "dockets," are used to appoint
or change appointments of guradians for orphans, incompetents, and sometimes
indigents. They also record administrators for estates and frequently trustees.
Many property transfers, inventories of estates, marriages, births, and
deaths are to be found in these "Orphan Court Dockets." You might
even uncover and elusive maiden name for when a widow asks that an individual
be appointed guardian for her son; it's possible that they are related.
ORPHAN COURT RECORDS FOR NEW YORK STATE
There are no such records labeled as Orphans Records in the Unified
Court System of New York State. There may be some type of court record if
the court ordered a placement of the children or if a formal adoption took
place. Any possible court records would depend upon the circumstances of
the placement of the child into the *home*. Since each circumstance would
be different each line of research would be different. If it can be determined
that there was something to prompt a court case, you would then need to
determine the type of offence or court action that transpired, what locality
it took place in, the date of the action, the name(s) of the individuals
involved (with multiple spellings) and any other information or clues you
may have. Once the type of court(s) and location(s) can be narrowed down,
you would then need to see if the records have survived; followed by the
current location and the accessibility of the records (e.g. adoption records
are closed).
For instance: If the child had a history of juvenile delinquency on
the Lower East Side of New York City, there may be some type of court record
that was created by the Domestic Relation or Children*s Court in Manhattan.
There are also *local* police court records and justice courts to consider.
Many of these records have not survived. Additionally there may be records
from the social service agencies of the time and from the settlement houses
that dealt with immigrants.
With over 300 years of history, the New York State Court System has
had many changes in dispensing justice and creating policy for the access
and preservation records.
Information supplied by:
Sarah A. Polirer, CA, CRM
Archivist
New York State - Unified Court System
Office of Court Administration
25 Beaver Street, Room 886
New York, NY 10004
(212)428-2881
Fax: (212)428-2880
Email: spolirer@courts.state.ny.us
The following information was from NYC Roots, submitted by Brett.Lieberman, on 5/19/03
Adoption records were sealed in 1938 in New York
State.
1: Original Birth Certificate # you can look in the New York City Birth
index and look for the person via Date,Borough, Last name, some times the
Numbers on the amended Birth Certificate Created after the Adoption will
bare the same numbers as the original and in some cases will match the Birth
Mothers as well.
2: Petition to Adopt: This was done in Court, with the Birth Mother
first
signing away her rights and later the adoptive parents and will be on the
Court index but this is sealed from public View. The Court will have a Court
Docket file # Like 1234-1934 , This is the File, then the book & page
Number, along with date.
3: Final Decree is issued to the adoptive parents, is the Adoption decree
or
Adoption order, which also might contain the person's birth name, and some
cases the birth parents.
4: A Adoptive home study was done prior to being placed with a family
before
they were adopted to see how suitable the adoptive parents were. This was
done by post adoption services in some cases either by New York State or
where the Adoptive parents lived or agency if one was used.
5: Lawyers : in some case lawyers places legal ads about the legal
proceedings about the adoption so check all local papers for such notice
2
weeks before or 2 weeks after if you know the info and date of adoption.
you
can get the Docket number and legal name of Child but that's all.
6: Signed Relinquishment Form was signed by the birth mother and has
her
legal full name and other information in it. This was held in the Court
House. Also called a surrender in a agency Adoption, may be signed any time
after birth and will have the birth mothers full legal name in it.
7: The degree of availability : the (a) order of adoption, (b) record
of all
proceedings upon which is based and (c) adoption Index are kept in the
office of the court granting the adoption ( Surrogates County court) Such
records are under Seal and you would need a court order by a judge to show
good cause to do so and bring tons of money.
The index will be By the Adoptive parents and the "new' name of
child not
the Child's original name. if a adoption took place in Manhattan lets say
then it will be at 31 Chambers St, the 4th or 5th floor?
8: if you know what hospital the person was born in their might be some
records that could be still located some where and these can be viewed by
the public and are not sealed.
PENNYSLVANIA ORPHAN COURT RECORDS
A great new (to me) source of Pennsylvania genealogical information
you might consider is the Orphan's Court files.
Access to these files is through an index that is available through
the LDS FHC.
These files are guardianship proceedings. It appears that PA law then
(and perhaps now, who knows) required the appointment of a guardian under
the supervision of the Orphan's Court for the estate of any minor who came
into money, whether the minor's parents were still alive or not.
It is not always mentioned in the petition, but the guardian is often
a collateral relative, either an adult sibling or an uncle or aunt, and
the attorney who prepares the document is sometimes (but less frequently)
a family member. Sometimes, the guardian needs to post a bond, and the bond
is often posted by a collateral relative, but therelationship is not always
stated.
Each file had a petition for guardianship in it; some also had the guardian's
accounting; some had papers discharging the guardian. These files were a
genealogical gold mine. In them I was toldof sibling and parent-child relationships;
an illegitimate child (and the child's putative father) of whom I had been
unaware; the date of death of a child I had been looking for further information
about, and a persuasive link between two KIMMELMAN families about whose
relationship I had been doubtful, the link being a person in one family
served as the guardian for a person in the other family.
One can access these files in the following way. First, get the microfilm
from LDS; look up the surname. The index will provide a year, a docket number,
and a file number, so it will look something like 5438, docket 3, 1933.
Write to the Orphan's Court, 415 City Hall, giving them the name of the
case, the year, the docket, and the file number, as well as the date you
would like to examine the files. If you are not from Philadelphia, I do
not know whether, for a photocopyingcharge, they will send you a copy. Most
of the files are less than 5 pages, but some are more substantial.
In theory, these are *not* probate indices. There is a separate index
to testate administrations (deaths where the decedent left a will), and
a separate index to intestate administrations (deaths without a will). However,
one of the references in this index was for a simple intestate succession
administration. There was no guardianship involved, so no reason for it
to be in the Orphan's Court index, but there it was.
I suspect that a similar situation exists in other Pennsylvania counties.
Information provided by:
Herbert Lazerow
University of San Diego Law School
5998 Alcala Park
San Diego CA 92110-2492
lazer@acusd.edu
fax 619-260-2230
phone (619)260-4597
FRATERNAL ORGANIZATIONS & ORPHANS
About one hundred years ago, it is estimated that about 87% of adult
males belonged to some fraternal organization, such as Freemasons, Odd Fellows,
Knights of Pithias, Elks, Moose, and Owls, for example. The reason these
organizations were so popular is that they were something of an insurance
policy as they all had an obligation to take care of widows and orphans
of their members.
ORPHAN
ARTICLE EXCERPT
"........New York had a program to take Jewish immigrant children
from their families, 10 and 11 year olds, "train" them in a juvenile
asylum, and then ship them out to farms in Illinois and Iowa ---'all for
the purpose of turning them into good Americans.' And not every such example
involved Protestants imposing on other faiths. In Cleveland, the establish
German Reform Jewish trustee who oversaw the Jewish Orphan Asylum endorsed
efforts to Americanize the Russian immigrant children coming to that city,
even if that meant estrangement from their parents. The Russians were backward
in the eyes of the Cleveland Jewish establishment, and the trustees fretted
that the newcomers' Orthodox customs and Zionism would inspire anti-Semitism
and harm Jews in general..They belittle the old-country ways of the children's
parents. They tried to steer the kids away from commerce--the stereotypical
Jewish occupation--and turn them into American farmers and mechanics."
The above excerpt was taken from "The Rise and Demise of the
American Orphanage" by Dale Keiger. To read the whole article you
may access it at the following URL: JOHN
HOPKINS MAGAZINE - APRIL 1996 ISSUE
A very special THANKYOU
to
Phyllis Blumenfeld and Florence
Marmor for providing the following information.
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YIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH
RECORDS of
UNITED HEBREW CHARITIES
Registration of Record Group #1251, Dated 1991
Source of Data:
1. 151/89
2. 144/91
3. Jewish Communal Register, 1917/18
Toward an effort tending toward greater coordination among relief
agencies, the United Hebrew Charities was organized in 1877. At its incaption,
it was an outgrowth of the Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum Society and
at the time of incorporation it included a confederation of the following
organizations:
The Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum Society
The Hebrew Benevolent Fuel Association
The Hebrew Relief Society
Congreation Shearith Israel
The Ladies' Benevolent Society
Congregation Gates of Prayer
The Hebrew Benevolent Ladies' Society of Yorkville
DESCRIPTION OF CONTENTS:
Records of the United Hebrew Charities and affiliated organizations:
1. Minutes of the executive committee, 1890-1902;
2. Minutes of the Hebrew Benevolent Fuel Association (Origianlly organized
as the Young Men's Hebrew Benevolent Association), 1849-1907;
3. Members book, 1877-1881 and Treasurers' account to 1906 of the Hebrew
Benevolent Fuel Association;
4. Miutes of the meetings of the United Hebrew Charities, 1908-1925 and
the
Jewish Social Services Association, 1926-1942; (one bound volume of hand-
written and typed minutes);
5. List of recipients of the United Hebrew Charities, 1871-1873, (handwritten
notebook presented to the organization in 1899);
6. United Hebrew Charities of the City of New York: Charter, 1901;
Supplemental certificate, 1911; Certificate of Incorporation, 1877;
Annual report, 1922: Ten-year study of needy children, 1920;
Assorted reports and papers, 1916-1916;
7. "Report on the Jewish Relief Agencies in New York City" (two
assembled
loose-leaf folders) prepared by the Bureau of Municipal Research for the
New York Foundation, October 1915, plus a summary of the Report and a
Supplemantary Memorandum of Accountng Procedures, January 1916;
8. Annual reports for 1882, 1895, 1903, 1905.
Inclusive Dates: 1849-1942
Quantity: 2' 1"
These Records were received from:
Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services
Finding Aids Related to this Record Group:
Listing in authority file
Restrictions on the use of this Record Group
Related Records: Other anual reports are at YIVO Library
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New searchable data base includes orphanage and asylum records:
This following article, New York Orphan
Asylum Holdings at the American Jewish Historical Society,
by Nancy Arbeiter, is from the
Spring 1995 Issue of AVOTAYNU, Volume XI, Number 1
Reprinted with their permission.
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New York Area Orphan Asylum Holdings
at the
American Jewish Historical Society
by Nancy Arbeiter
Nancy Arbeiter is a professional genealogist and member
of the
Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Boston.
She lives in Needham, Masssachusetts.
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but still wanted eveyone to be able to see this wonderful resource. As soon
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Genealogically rich holdings of the Jewish Child Care Association of
New York (JCCA), dating from the mid-19th century to the early 1930's, are
held by the American Jewish Historical Society (AJHS) in Waltham, Massachusetts,
where they may be consulted by researchers. This article provides a brief
history of the New York City Jewish orphanages, details some of the useful
records held at the AJHS and explains how to access the data. At the end
is a list of child-specific holdings according to institution.
In New York City in 1859, the Hebrew Benevolent Society, an organization
established in 1822 to help the "sick, needy, widowed and orphaned
of New York's Jewish community,"(1) merged
with the German Benevolent Society, a group created in 1845 to aid German
Jewish. The resultant new organization retained the name Hebrew Benevolent
Society, but expanded its function. It contined its work among the unfortunate,
but in addition established "an Orphan Asylum and a Home for the Aged
and Indigent Jews."(2)
Increased Jewish emigration, plus nationwide economic difficulties and
medical epidemics, had resulted in a growing number of orphaned and half-orphaned,
impoverished children living in the streets. Fear that these street children
would be placed in almshouses used by disturbed adults and criminals, or
that the children might be placed in Christian orphan asylums and converted
to Christianity, stimulated the merger and decision to create a Jewish orphan
home.(3)
New York's first Jewish orphanage, eventually call the Hebrew Orphan
Asylum (HOA), opened in 1860. From then until it closed in 1922, HOA cared
for 13,506 children between the ages of five and sixteen,(4)
was "the largest institution for the care of dependent Jewish
children in the United States, and the largest Jewish institution of its
kind in the world."(5)
Between 1860 and 1878, HOA experienced increasing demand for admissions,
largely from continued increases in Jewish emigration to New York and in
part from the passage of the Children's Law in 1875.(6)
The new law required that all children be removed from adult almshouses
and be placed in shelters of the same religious faith as the parents. In
1878, hoping to reduce population pressures on it, the HOA board voted not
to accept any children from Brooklyn. This act stimulated creation of the
Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum (BHOA) in the same year.
During its first years, BHOA accepted only orphans and not impoverished
children. Nevertheless, from its inception until its closure, BHOA sheltered
and helped thousands of children. By the time BHOA merged with the JCCA
in 1960, it had become the third largest orphanage in the U.S.(8)
Even without children from Brooklyn, population pressures on HOA did
not diminish, so in 1879 the board voted to take advantage of an option
in its charter and opted not to take any children who were not orphaned
or half-orphaned. Destitute children would have to go elsewhere.(9)
This vote prompted the establishment of yet another New York orphanage,
the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society (HSGS).(10)
HSGS accepted any needy children; it was to be a home for Jewish
children "who otherwise would be unprotected or be found in institutions
of other denominations."(11) During its
first year of operation, HSGS sheltered 164 children between the ages of
2 and 12.(12) In 1934, it cared for 1,650 children,
1,300 through its foster home bureau and 350 at its Pleasantville facility.(13)
Prior to 1895, infants from birth to age three who required shelter
were not admitted to HSGS, HOA or BHOA.(14) Instead,
infants were given to wet nurses until about age two when they were admitted
to HSGS. Because of disease, wet nurses fell into disfavor and an orphanage
for infants and toddlers, the Hebrew Infants Asylum of the City of New York
(HIA), was created in 1895. Later, it was called the Home for Hebrew Infants
of the City of New York.(15)
At its inception and at least through 1917, HIA was the only orphan
asylum in the State of New York that cared exclusively for Jewish children
from birth to age five.(16) Children admitted
were orphans, half-orphans, impoverished or without proper guardianship:
early by-laws required, however, that the children be born in wedlock.
Soon after its dedication in 1895, HIA had 34 children living at its facility;
by 1917, HIA was caring for about 600 children annually.(18)
Over the years, some organizations changed philosophies and/or added
new affiliated agencies, such as foster placement services. They were joined
by new orphanages created to fill unmet needs. the latter included the Hebrew
Nation Orphan Home (HNOH), later called Homecrest, an Orthodox home established
by Rumanian Jews in 1914 to care for orphaned and destitute male children
between the ages of 6 and 13. The Israel Orphan Asylum (IOA), later called
the Gustave Hartman Home for Children, was established in 1917 to care for
children between one and six years of age.
In 1914, its first year of operation, HNOH cared for 20 children. By
1922, it sheltered 300 boys. The HOA had capacity for 120 children. In 1956,
Homecrest and the Gustave Hartman Home merged to become Hartman-Homecrest.(20)
The Hebrew Orphan Asylum merged with the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian
society of New York in 1940 to become the Jewish Child Care Association
of New York (JCCA). In 1942, the Home for Hebrew Infants also merged with
JCAA, and the Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum followed suit in 1960.(21) Hartman-Homecrest merged with JCCA in 1962.(22)
AJHS Holdings
In its suburban Boston location on the campus of Brandeis University,
AJHS holds voluminous records and papers of the JCCA ancestral agencies---the
Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum, Hartman-Homecrest, Hebrew Orphan Asylum,
Hebrew Infant Asylum of the City of New York, Hebrew Sheltering Guardian
Society and the Home for Hebrew Infants of the City of New York.
In addition to genealogically useful child-specific admission and discharge
ledgers, physician report ledgers and conduct ledgers, the holdings include,
but are not limited to, copies of annual reports, testimonials, histories,
directors meeting reports, by-laws, constitutions and scrapbooks. AJHS has
no child-specific records for Hartman-Homecrest or its ancestral agencies;
neither does it house any foster home records. Child-specific records in
bound ledger books provide some genealogical information about the children
and their parents, but the amount of data varies with institution and the
function of each ledger.
Some admission and discharge ledgers and other child-specific holdings
are indexed; others are not indexed, and children are listed in approximate
order of admission date, discharge date or date of the medical check-up
required prior to admission. Still other books list children in order of
state or city identification number.
Access to Records
According to both the AJHS archivist, Holly Snyder and the AJHS librarian,
Michelle Feller-Kopman, child-specific records up to and including 1920
are open to all researchers. child-specific records for 1921 and later may
not be viewed without written permission from the Jewish Child Care Association
of New York (JCCA). For such permission write Jewish Child Care Association
of New York, 575 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10022; telephone: (212)371-1313.
Once AJHS receives written confirmation from JCCA of permission to view
specific records, it will allow a researcher access.
For a fee, AJHS will respond to mail or telephone requests for information
from the JCCA collection, but first will send a form to complete. The form
details fees and time limitations. To request this form, write to American
Jewish Historical Society, 2 Thornton Road,Waltham, MA 02154; telephone(617)891-9110;
fax: (617)899-9208. It is best to do research on site, but if you want to
see post-1920 records, be sure to have permission from JCCA in hand.
Research at AJHS
The American Jewish Historical Society is a closed stack
facility. To access orphan asylum records, one needs to use the card catalog
for the holdings and call numbers. Requests are given to the librarian,
who will bring items from the stacks. AJHS has cataloged the orphan asylum
holdings under the topic "Orphan and Orphan Asylums," and then
by specific orphanages. Cards for each specific institution list the holdings
and the number of cartons and ledgers. Cards do not list what is in each
carton or ledger. Cards are said to be 90 percent complete, but they can
be difficult to use. Some important holdings, such as the After Care Placement
Records for the Hebrew Orphan Asylum, are not listed and wee identified
for this author by the AJHS archivist. Some items listed on cards do not
appear to be in the stacks. It is expected that these difficulties will
be resolved before the 1996 Boston seminar on Jewish genealogy.
Child-Specific Holdings
BROOKLYN HEBREW ORPHAN ASYLUM
established in 1878, closed its doors as a live-in orphanage in 1939 and
reopened as a foster home placement service called the CHILDREN'S SERVICE
BUREAU and the GIRLS' CLUB a residence for Jewish girls, ages 16 to 21,
from the New York City area.(24) In approximately
1955, it changed its name to JEWISH YOUTH SERVICES OF BROOKLYN.(25)
It merged with JCCA in 1960.
Child-specific holdings include:
---Admissions and discharge records (1879-1913; 1887-1910; 1913-14;
1899-1953; 1914-1938). These ledgers are not indexed.
The 1879-1913 and 1913-14 ledgers are arranged by admission date. They
include some data on each child. Including the address where the child
was living when admitted to the asylum, parents' names and nativity, and
discharge data. Children in the 1879-1913 ledger can be cross-referenced
to the 1887-1910 ledger.
The 1887-1910 ledger is arranged by admission date. Among other information,
it gives child's name, age, birthplace and state of parentage (full or
half orphan), parents' place of birth and some discharge data. It does
not list parents' names. Each child in numbered.
The 1899-1953 ledger lists children by ascending city and state numbers,
which follow ascending admission dates. They can be cross-referenced to
the 1914-38 ledger. among other items, this ledger supplies the child's
name, city and state numbers, date and place of birth and discharge data.
The 1914-38 ledger is a typewritten list of discharges with children
listed in order of discharge date. The child's city number and date of
discharge are given, as well as the name and address of the person to whom
the child was discharged.
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HEBREW GUARDIAN SHELTERING
SOCIETY OF NEW YORK,founded in 1879, began as a large facility in
the city, but moved to the PLEASANTVILLE COTTAGE SCHOOL in 1912, one of
the first cottage type institutions. It opened other allied agencies, including
the FOSTER HOME BUREAU established in 1922.(26) It
merged with the HEBREW ORPHAN ASYLUM to become the JCCA in 1940.
Child-specific holdings include:
---Admissions and discharge records (1907-08; 1908-10; 1908-15; 1911-29;
1917-32; 1918-42). The card catalog and archival box state that AJHS holds
admissions and discharge records from 1894, but the librarian was unable
to find records prior to 1907. Only the 1911-29 ledger is arranged alphabetically.
The ledger for 1907-08 and 1908-10 are solely discharge ledgers with
names listed in order of discharge date. They provide the child's name,
age, admission date, city and state numbers and discharge date, e.g., to
whom discharged and their address. Some of the children can be cross-referenced
to the 1908-15 ledger (see below).
The ledger for 1908-15 is a listing of children by admission date and
a listing of children by discharge date. Beside each child's name is a
city and state number and the child's age. Using the date and city and
state numbers, one can cross-reference other ledgers.
The ledger for 1911-29 is oversized and extremely thick. It is arranged
by the first letter of each child's surname. This ledger gives data about
the child, the parents and discharge data. city and state record numbers
are given. The year spans of the ledger are misleading, however. Most of
the children listed were admitted between 1910 and 1920 and their "dates
of expiration" (possibly a reference to the date that the admissions
commitment expired) occurred between 1920 and 1930.
The ledger for 1917-32 is another list of children by admission date
and by discharge date. Like the earlier book, it gives beside each name
a city and state number and the child's age. Using the date, city and state
numbers, one can cross-reference other ledgers.
In the ledger for 1918-42, children are arranged by city and state
numbers and admission dates. Admissions range from 1918 to 1942. some of
the earlier entries include parents' town of birth, e.g., Solonik, Spain;
Vitonska, Russia; Gronidi, Russia, and Vokanishky, Russia. The data include
discharge dates.
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HARTMAN-HOMECREST was
created by a 1956 merger of the HEBREW NATIONAL ORPHAN ASLYUM, later called
HOMECREST, and the ISRAEL ORPHAN ASYLUM, later called GUSTAVE HARTMAN HOME
FOR CHILDREN. It merged with JCCA in 1962.
AJHS only has archives consisting of "The Alumnus,"
HNOH newsletters; alumni information and memorabilia.
For child-specific holdings contact Leona Ferrar, Coordinator, Quality Insurance
at JCCA.
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HEBREW INFANT ASYLUM OF THE
CITY OF NEW YORK (also known as the HOME FOR HEBREW INFANTS OF THE
CITY OF NEW YORK) was founded in 1895 as HEBREW INFANT ASYLUM OF THE CITY
OF NEW YORK. Name change to HOME FOR HEBREW INFANTS OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK
between 1915 and 1917. Merged into JCCA in 1942. See also holdings under
HEBREW INFANTS OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK.
Child-specific records include:
---Admissions and discharge records (1895-1903; 1903-08)
These are indexed ledgers. Each admission record includes some data
on the child and his/her parents. The discharge data for each child is
included on the admission form.
The 1895-1903 admission ledger lists a "medical report page number"
which cross-references to the 1895-1903 admitting physician reports (see
below).
The 1903-08 admission ledger cross references to the 1903-08 admitting
physician report by the page number stamped on the top of each page of
the admissions report. For example, the child listed on page 729 in the
1903-08 admission report is the same child listed on page 729 in the 1903-08
admitting physician's report.
---Children's records (1896-1903).
This ledger is included in AJHS holdings under admissions and discharge
ledgers (above), but is not comprised of admission forms. Rather, it is
an unindexed ledger on the children, which includes brief data on individual
children, his/her parents and some discharge particulars. Using dates listed
in the admission form ledgers, the author could cross-reference children
between the 1895-1903 admission ledger and this ledger of children;s records.
---Admitting physicians reports (1895-00; 1895-1903; 1903-08).
The 1895-99 and 1895-1903 ledgers are not indexed. Children are listed
by the date that the examining physician recommended that the child be
admitted to the facility. These two ledgers provide name of child, physical
description at time of admission, perhaps some information abut why admitted
and some medical history added later to records (measles, whooping cough,
etc.). Some children listed in the 1895-1903 ledger are also listed in
the 1895-99 ledger. When applicable, a number in the 1895-1903 ledger cross-references
to the 1895-99 ledger.
Although the 1903-08 ledger is indexed, it supplies less medical information
than the earlier books.
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HEBREW ORPHAN ASYLUM was
founded in 1860. Name changed in 1870 to the HEBREW BENEVOLENT and ORPHAN
ASYLUM SOCIETY of the City of New York and in 1906 to the HEBREW ORPHAN
ASYLUM of the City of New York.(27) Merged
with JCCA in 1940.
Child-specific records include:
---Applications for admission (1862-84; 1864-69; 1871-79; 1901-24).
With the exception of the 1862-84 ledger, these books are indexed. Information
included varies, but generally covers applicants' names, places of birth,
siblings and reason for request for admittance.
In the 1906-08 ledger (and perhaps later ledgers), some applications
include immigrant arrival information, approximate date of arrival in the
U.S., and country and city of birth.
The ledger for 1862-84 includes various listings of children and their
respective admission and discharge dates. Lists include children who "withdrew,"
left to follow "mercantile" pursuits, left for a "trade,"
were sent out as "help," left because of "adoption,"
were "dismissed" or were sent to"other institutions."
The listings are separated within the ledger. Note: This ledger was not
marked "Hebrew Orphan Asylum" on the outside, and the librarian
was not sure to which orphanage it belonged. Because of the early date
(1862), the author assumes that it came from HOA.
---Discharge records (1899-1906; 1909-1940).
These records are not indexed. Children are recorded by discharge date.
Records primarily give child's name, reason for discharge and signature
of individual requesting discharge and his/her address.
---HOA public school detention book for the Asylum's children (1879-84).
This book is listed alphabetically and by date. It provides child's name
and reason for detention and can supply a rather colorful view of some
of the children. For example, on the first page, which covers the time
span June 9, 1879, to December 15, 1880, Sigmund Alexander is listed 38
times, apparently given detention each time for "bad" or "disorderly
contact." I cross-referenced Sigmund to another ledger that had his
school records. It showed that Sigmund also was not an "A" student.
On page 136, another boy, Samuel Philipson, is listed as having been given
detention on May 17, 1880, for being "disobedient, impudent, fighting
with Seiden and Smith, answering back, speaking without permission [and]
sulking."(23)
---Alphabetical index of children (undated).
---Children's savings accounts (1912-41).
This is indexed, but it provides little information except the child's
name, deposit(s), interest and withdrawals. Some pages refer to other ledgers
not held by AJHS.
---After care department register (1922-42).
According to the AJHS archivist, these are indexed.(28)
The records provide follow-up information on children who were no
longer in HOA and may provide leads to admission applications and other
records. Note: To view this register, permission must be obtained from
JCCA.
---Relief books (1905-07; 1908).
These are indexed. They list money given to needy families with children
who were not at HOA. The earlier ledger includes a detailed page of information
about each family and its circumstances; the later ledger has little or
no family data.
---Register of children's visitors (1902-06).
The visitors are indexed and children are listed in alphabetical order.
The register provides the child's name, visitor's name and address, relationship
of visitor to child and date of visit.
---Conduct Books (1872-76; 1877-84; 1891-96).
These are indexed. The two earlier ledgers include children's names,
as well as comments on deportment, order, diligence and grades. Although
the earlier ledgers are considered conduct books, they could also be called
school record books. Contrary to information in the card catalog, the archivist
was unable to locate anything specifically called school record books.
The 1891-96 ledger seems to be more of a detention book and includes
some lengthy comments.
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HOME FOR HEBREW INFANTS OF THE
CITY OF NEW YORK, also known as the HEBREW INFANT ASYLUM of the City
of New York.
Name changed from HEBREW INFANT ASYLUM of the City of New York to HOME
FOR HEBREW INFANTS of the City of New York between 1915 and 1917. Merged
with JCCA in 1942. See also holding for the HEBREW INFANT ASYLUM of the
City of New York.
Child-specific holdings include:
---Admissions and Discharges (1922-43).
According to the AJHS archivist, these are not indexed: the children
are listed by admission date. These documents include minimal data about
individual children.
Non-Child-Specific Holdings
Additional holdings supply rich background abut life in these institutions
and the people affiliated with them. Family historians interested in detailing
lives of their ancestors should not ignore them. Among other items are photographs,
details about training and educational programs yearly purchases, donations
(e.g., $10 worth of ice cream donated by Mr. Hyman Cohen; 15 blankets donated
by Misses Bessie and Anna Steinberg, etc.) and names and addresses of society
members and donors.
Members of the Jewish Genealogy Society of Greater Boston (JGSGB), Fred
Davis and Karen Kushner, are working with AJHS to inventory and describe
major collections with genealogical relevance in preparation for the 1996
Boston seminar on Jewish genealogy and contributed to this article. In addition,
Kushner has been reviewing records for Bellefaire, a Cleveland orphan asylum,
and the Jewish Family and Child Services of Denver(1921-69) also held at
AJHS.
RECOMMENDED READING
Jacqueline Bernard, The Children You Gave Us: A History of 150 Years
of Service to Children (New York: Block, 1972). Excellent bibliography
as well as a chronological chart detailing the history of the orphanages.
AJHS Call No. HV833.N7B47.
Hyman Bogen, The Luckiest Orphans: A History of the Hebrew Orphan
Asylum of New York (Urbana, Ill.:University of Illinois Press, 1992).
AJHS Call No. HV995.N52.H433
Reena Sigman Friedman, These Are Our Children: Jewish Orphanages
in the United States, 1880-1925 (Waltham, Mass.: Brandeis University
Press, 1994). Excellent bibliography. AJHS Call No. HV983.F75.
NOTES
1. Bernard, Children You Gave Us, 165.
2. Hebrew Orphan Asylum, The Hebrew Orphan Asylum of the City of New
York, 1822-1922 (New York: Stettiner Bros., 1922) 27, AJHS Call No.
*1-42, Box 14.
3. Bernard, Children You Gave Us, 5-7.
4. Hebrew Orphan Asylum, 46.
5. Friedman, These Are Our Children, 4.
6. Bernard, Children You Gave Us, 13-15; "Littlefield Abstract,"
1, AJHS Call No. 1-43, Box 11.
7. Bernard, Children You Gave Us, 15.
8. Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum, The Institution That Emptied Itself,
Sixty-Fifth Annual Report (New York: Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum,
1943? 3, 6, 13, AJHS Call No. *1-230, Box 2
9. Bernard, Children You Gave Us, 16.
10. Ibid
11. Jewish Child Care Association of New York, 75th Anniversary Celebration
H.S.G.S. - J.C.C.A. (New York, [1954], 10, AJHS Call No. *1-43, Box
11.
12. Ibid
13. Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society of New York, Report of the Board
of Directors at the Biennial Meeting Held at Pleasantville, New York,
27 May 1934
(n.p.:[1934]), 12. AJHS Call No. *1-43, Box 11.
14. Esther Wallenstein, "Report of the President," Fifth Annual
Report of the Directors of the Hebrew Infant Asylum of the City of New York,
(New York:Stettiner Bros., 1900), 11. Bound in Annual Report 1898-1908,
AJHS Call No. *1-166, Box 1. This report states that children were not admitted
before the age of three; the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society material
says that it admitted children beginning at age two.
15. Bernard, Children You Gave Us, 21.
16. Wallenstein, "Report of the President, "Fifth Annual Report,
Home for Hebrew Infants (formerly Hebrew Infant Asylum) of the City of New
York, Annual Report 1917 (New York, Stettiner Bros., 1917) n.p.,
AJHS Call No. *1-166, Box 1. Bound in Annual Report of the Hebrew Infant
Asylum, 14-22, 1909-1917, AJHS *1-166, Box 1.
17. Hebrew Infant Asylum, "By-laws of the Hebrew Infant Asylum of the
City of New York," in Fifth Annual Report of the Directors of the
Hebrew Infant Asylum of the City of New York, January 1900 (New York:
Stettiner Bros., 1900) 43. Bound in Hebrew Infants Asylum, annual reports,
1898-1908. AJHS Call No. *1-166, Box 1.
18. S. Wallenstein, "Report of the President," Annual Report
of the Directors of the Hebrew Infant Asylum of the City of New York, January
1896 (New York: Philip Cowen, 1896), 11, AJHS Call No. *1-166 Box 1;
Aaron E. Nusbaum, "The Presidents's Address," in Annual Report
1917,9.
19. "Background Information on Hartman-Homecrest," Jewish Child
Care Association of New York, Community Relations Department, [n.d.], 2,
AJHS Call No. *1-233, Box 1.
20. Ibid, 1-3,
21. Bernard, Children You Gave Us, 167. Unless otherwise noted, all
JCCA merger dates were obtained from this source and page.
22. "Background Information on Hartman-Homecrest," 4, AJHS Call
No. *1-233, Box 1.
23. HOA Public School Detention Book, Conduct and Lessons, 1879-1884, 136.
AJHS Call No. *1-42, Box 72.
24. Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum, The Institution That Emptied Itself,
13; "Annual Message from the President," Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan
Asylum, 1951, 3, AJGS Call no. *1-230, Box 3.
25. Annual reports for the years prior to 1955 listed the asylum as the
Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan's Home; annual reports for 1955 and later listed
the asylum as the Jewish Youth Services of Brooklyn.
26. "The Promised Land: What Happened on July 1st, 1912--Remember?"
H.S.G.S. Cavalcade to 1940 (New York: Crows and Ravins? 1940), n.p.
AJHS Call no. *1-43, Box 11; Sobel, Louis H., "Seventy-Five Years of
Progress in Child Care Services,: 75th Anniversary Celebration H.S.G.S.-J.C.C.A.(New
York, [1954], 17, AJHS Call No. *1-43, Box 11.
27. Hebrew Orphan Asylum, 29.
28. Because of privacy issues, the author was not allowed to see these.
NEW YORK
PUBLIC LIBRARY HOLDINGS FOR THE HOA (Jewish Division)
Two reels of microfilm, call number *ZZAN-15305
Annual report of the Hebrew Benevolent Society and Orphan Asylum of the
City of New York <1863>-1875
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan
Asylum Society of the City of New York 1876-<1897>
Microfiche: *XMH-1857
By-laws of the Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum Society: adopted 1898.
Imprint: Newark, N. J.: Baker Print. Co., [1898]
NEW YORK ORPHAN
ASYLUM RECORDS
Records from the New York Orphanage Asylum
are archived at the Westchester County Historical Society. The records are
on microfiche back to 1815, and the Librarian is very helpful.
MUSEUM OF THE
CITY OF NY
Copy prints of photographs depicting child care activities of several
Jewish child care associations in New York City such as:
HEBREW ORPHAN ASYLUM
HEBREW INFANT HOME
HOME FOR HEBREW INFANTS
BROOKLYN ORPHAN ASYLUM
HEBREW SHELTERING GUARDIAN SOCIETY
are archived at:
MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK
1220 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10029
(212)534-1672
Fax: (212)423-0758
Photographs from 1850-1970, illustrate interior and exterior views of
life in institutions and ways children were cared for from infancy to the
teen years. Activities depicted include meals, workshops, various types
of military "drills", recreation, worship, and general child care.
Payment of fee for reproduction of photographs.
THE NEW YORK
HOSPITAL-CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER
MEDICAL ARCHIVES of Various Institutions in NYC
[1771-Present]
The Archives of the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center is the
repository for the official records of the following institutions and associations:
The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, 1927-present
The Society of the New York Hospital, 1771-present
Cornell University Medical College, 1898-present
Cornell University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, 1952-present
Cornell University-New York Hospital School of Nursing, 1877-1979
The Society of the Lying-In Hospital of the City of New York, 1799-present
Manhattan Maternity and Dispensary, 1905-1939
Nursery for the Children of Poor Women and Nursery and Child's Hospital,1854-1910
New York Infant Asylum, 1865-1910
New York Nursery and Child's Hospital, 1910-1947
Here is a description of Nursery and Child's Hospital as reported in
the Medical Directory of the City of New York (1899 edition):
[Thank you to Steven
Siegel]
Nursery and Child's Hospital (1854). 51st st. and Lexington ave. Maintainsand
cares for destitute children under four years of age, and boards the children
of wet nurses. Children are received to board at $10 per month. Women of
good character, free from contagious diseases, are also admitted to the
lying-in department on the payment of $25 or agreeing to remain three months
after confinement to nurse two infants. Has a country branch at Staten
Island for older children. Apply daily at the hospital from 11 A.M. to
2 P.M. Applications for confinement are best made in person.
This institution was absorbed in 1934 into the New York Hospital-CornellMedical
Center. As was reported by someone else, archival materials onNursery and
Child's Hospital are located at the Archives of NYH-CMC. Look at http://www.med.cornell.edu/centennial/opening.html
for information on the Archives.
New York Asylum for Lying-In Women, 1823-1899
The American Medical Women's Association, 1915-present
The Women's Medical Association of New York City, 1902-present
In addition, the Archives collects the personal papers of people of
note connected with the Medical Center, such as Drs. George N. Papanicolaou,
Vincent du Vigneaud, the 1955 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, Connie M. Guion,
George J. Heuer and Walsh McDermott.
The approximately 4,600 linear feet of records and manuscript collections
represent a continuous chronicle of health care, scientific research, and
education dating back to 1771. The Archives also has a large photograph
and print collection with over 20,000 items,architectural plans, films and
tapes, oral histories and over 500 antique medical instruments, many from
the Reichert Collection of Diagnostic Instruments.
The records of the Archives include medical case histories from the
New York Hospital, 1808-1932 (192 linear feet) and the Lying-In Hospital,
1891-1932 (103 linear feet) and many other patient related records representing
the changes in the patient population, medical and nursing care over a period
of 200 years.
The Archives is a rich resource for women 's history. Women are documented
as physicians, nurses, patients, administrators and philanthropists who
give time and money to help other women. The education of health care professionals
with its formalization since our nation's start can be studied.
The change from lay supervisors to medical administrators is well documented
in the Minutes, legal and financial records of all the hospitals.
Our prestige as a premier medical center is based on our strong past,
representing over 200 years of health care and medical education in the
United States.
Occupying the entire 25th floor of the Hospital and open from 9:00 A.M.
to 5:00 P.M., Monday through Friday, the Archives welcomes researchers and
donors of records. Please call (212) 746-6072 to arrange for a visit.
OTHER ARCHIVE
& LIBRARY RESOURCES
HOUSE OF REFUGE, Randall's Island, NY
Records are located at the Municipal Archves, 31 Chambers St, New York,
NY..
Ask at the counter for the films...they are in cabinet behind main desk..
Additional Archive and Library Resources may also be found on this web
site.
NEW YORK JUVENILE
ASYLUM Alumnus
who rode the Orphan Trains
INFORMATION
SwampFox61@aol.com posted the following on NYC Rootsweb
I recently started working for a place called "The Childrens' Village",
which was formerly known as "The New York Juvenile Asylum". Originally
located in Manhattan, it has been in operation for over 150 years. They
took part in the orphan trains and had some kind of placing out agency in
Illinois.
I found all of this out from an article in a recent newsletter released
by The Childrens' Village. I think we all know about orphan trains so I
don't need to repeat the article here, but at the end it does say:
"If you are looking for information on a New York Juvenile Asylum
alumnus who rode the Orphan Trains, or can provide us with information,
please contact the editor of News from the Village, Nykeisha Jenkins, at
(914) 693-0600, x1119". In addition, the mailing address is as follows:
The Children's Village,
Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522.
OTHER
NEWSPAPER ARTICLES RE:
HEBREW ORPHAN ASYLUM & BROOKLYN HEBREW ORPHAN ASYLUM
List of Newspapers, Title and Date
1 nydtrib Hebrews Hebrew Orphan Asylum election 1894
New York Daily Tribune May 14 1894 Page:3 Column:4
2 nydtrib Hebrew Orphan Asylum Sickness 1898
New York Daily Tribune Aug 15 1898 Page:12 Column:2
3 nydtrib Diphtheria Hebrew Orphan Asylum, Brooklyn 1899
New York Daily Tribune Apr 12 1899 Page:11 Column:4
4 nydtrib Seligman, Jesse Hebrew Orphan Asylum memorial 1894
New York Daily Tribune May 31 1894 Page:6 Column:6
5 nydtrib Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum trophy 1894
New York Daily Tribune Dec 13 1894 Page:12 Column:1
6 nydtrib Hebrew Orphan Asylum Health Board investigates 1898
New York Daily Tribune Aug 16 1898 Page:8 Column:4
7 nydtrib Hebrew Orphan Asylum Quarantine 1902
New York Daily Tribune Jan 15 1902 Page:2 Column:1
8 nydtrib Hebrew Orphan Asylum Annual meeting 1902
New York Daily Tribune Apr 28 1902 Page:5 Column:5
9 pooles New York City, Hebrew Orphan Asylum Investigation 1875 Lewin,
R. D'C.
New Bra: a Monthly Periodical, Devoted to the Interests of Religion and
Humanity, and to the Diffusion of Knowledge on Judaism and Jewish Literature
(subtitle varies) 5 (1875):113
SEARCHING
FOR ADOPTION RECORDS
Example of Search Made through
Louis Wise Services
The following is an example of a real search for a birthmother. The
name of the searcher is withheld to protect her privacy.
We just recently completed an adoption search that involved use of many
kinds of records. The first place to start is to find out the birthname.
If you have a copy of your mother's birth certificate, the number on it
is the same as the number on her original certificate that is most likely
sealed. You need to go to the NY library and obtain the birth index for
the year of your mother's birth. Providing she was adopted at birth, her
original name will be listed under the same number as that listed on her
present certificate providing she was adopted in New York City.
You will have to scan through every number until you find the one that
matches her number. I did this and after searching through half of the year's
index, found the correct name. From there you can begin to search for the
birth parents. The adoption was arranged through Louise Wise. As was stated
in Jewish gen, they are now more willing to help arrange a reunion. If the
adoption was done through this agency, they will give you some non-identifying
information and possibly even some that is identifying. Believe it or not,
this information is extremely useful. Our search is completed and both birthparents
were found. Unfortunately, both are deceased, but a half brother was located
and a happy reunion resulted.
FIVE POINTS HOUSE OF INDUSTRY
a/k/a WOODYCREST-FIVE POINTS CHILD CARE
a/k/a GREER-WOODYCREST CHILDREN'S SERVICES
a//k/a FIVE POINTS CHILD CARE
ARCHIVES FOUND
Once referred to as FIVE POINTS CHILD CARE, it was also called WOODYCREST-FIVE
POINTS CHILD CARE a/k/a GREER-WOODYCREST CHILDREN'S SERVICES. Under Protestant
auspices; Established in 1849.
1896: (1)The Home for the Friendless, 32 E. 30th St; Established in
1849 Home School, at 29 E. 29th St., (2)Unverified Citation for the Five
Points House of Industry. Note: "Five Points" is the name
of a neighborhood in Manhattan at the intersection of Baxter, Worth and
Cross Streets.
1900: American Female Guardian Society and Home for the Friendless,
29 E. 29th St., and E. 30th, Manhattan; plus added entry at "Home for
the Friendless".
1904 Census: The Five Points House of Industry, in Manhattan; for children
and unemployed women.
1905 State Census: (1) American Female Guardian Society, in NY County;
enumerated in the 35th AD, 37th ED (2) Five Points House of Industry, in
NY County; enumerated in the 2nd AD, 20th ED.
1909: American Female Guardian Society and Home for the Friendless,
936 Woodycrest Ave.; adoptive placements into Chiristian families; cares
for destitute children; operates 12 industrial schools and a summer home
in Oceanport, NJ ...[perhaps akin to 1905: Woodycrest, no address, in Tarrytown,
NY; a summer home for children from various institutions in NYC; during
the winter it serves cripple children].
There is a whole web site devoted to 5 points at Five
Points
The following was submitted courtesy of Nancy Canfield:
The Five Points House of Industry moved from NY to Pomona, NY in 1911
and was called Crystal Run School from 1911-57, then Happy Valley Colony,
a little known of place described by Tom Riley in his book Happy Valley
School, a History and Remembrance. When they were preparing to tear the
place down for a golf course in 1992, Tom and some other alumni put together
a big reunion, he collected history, anecdotes and lots of pictures, and
created this book, which is a homemade, scrap book sort of publication,
but certainly gives the picture of the place.
During his research, Tom found boxes and boxes of records on children
just stacked away, which he then sent off to some archive. Here is his e-mailaddress
for further information:
NOTE: Tom Riley sent the archives to the following organization:
Orphan Train Heritage Society of America (OTHSA)
614 East Emma Ave., #115
Springdale, Ar. 72764-4634
Phone: 501-756-2780
4912 Trout Farm Road
Springdale, AR 72764
PLEASE NOTE, that Happy
Valley School, in Pomona NY, was merged with Woodycrest, and became Woodycrest-Five
Points Child Care (afterwards, Greer-Woodycrest, and then Greer House) .
The records of this facility is NOT included in the archives sent to Arkansas
by Tom Riley. His findings were strictly of the era PRIOR TO the merger
of Woodycrest with Five Point/Happy Valley, in 1973. The records of the
children from the Bronx (Woodycrest), were sent elsehwere. In the basement
of Jessup Hall, that Adminstration building at 110 Pomona Road, POmona NY,
were located (circa 1974, when I saw them with my own eyes) boxes of photographs
and records of those who resided at Happy Valley. Trying to get my own records,
I was advised that all records relating to Woodycrest children from the
Bronx, and those that remained when the merger took place, were transferred
(at a later year) to another location. David A Henry
(Former) AMERICAN FEMALE GUARDIAN SOCIETY AND HOME FOR THE FRIENDLESS,
WOODY CREST HOME, 936 Woodycrest Avenue, The Bronx. Built 1901-02; architect,
William B. Tuthill.
New
York City Landmarks Commission | Designation
ARCHIVAL
INFORMATION FOR NEW YORK STATE
(Thank you to Venita Ormsby Jones for providing this
informaton)
"Guide to Records in the New York State Archives", published
by The University of the State of New York
The State Eduacation Department State Archives and Records Administration
Albany, New York 12230
Book may be ordered from the NY State Archives site (small charge)
A1978 has Census of inmates in Almshouses and poor houses, 1875-1921
RECORDS
LOCATED FOR FIVE POINTS MISSION
Run by the Methodist Episopal Church
(Thank you to Venita Ormsby Jones for providing this
informaton)
Records for Five Point Mission are housed at Drew University in Madison,
N.Jersey.
NEW YORK FOUNDLING
AND
CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY
"FREE" LOOKUPS
Nancy Canfield has graciously volunteered
to do Free Lookups from Carole Innskeeps books
from the New York Foundling and Children's Aid Society.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION & HISTORY
ADOPTION & FOSTER CARE RECORDS: http://www.nyfoundling.org/records.html
Foundling's Record Information Department serves any parent and any adoptive
or foster parent, adoptees or foster care child who has ever been in the
New York Foundling Hospital, including Orphan Train Riders. We honor genealogical
requests. We act as a liaison between adoptees, parents and the NYS Adoption
Registry. Information is provided to adoptees and foster children over the
age of 18, or to parents of minors. Short-term individual, family, and group
counseling is often available, especially around issues of search and reunion
as well as the effects of adoption and foster care on the developing life
cycle of a child and family. We respect the rules of confidentiality as
well as current laws. For further information, please call: 212-633-9300,
ext. 6830
HISTORY ARCHIVES Collection Description:
The archives function as a repository for all material relevant to the New
York Foundling Hospital, sponsored by the Sisters of Charity of New York.
It contains materials on Sister Mary Irene Fitzgibbon, its founder, its
history, programs, and their locations. The Archives are open to the public
by appointment only. For information: call 212-633-9300, ext. 4052
THE NEW YORK FOUNDLING HOSPITAL
Main Administration Building
590 Avenue of the Americas,
NewYork City, New York, 10011
On October 11, 1969, the New York Hospital celebrated its one hundredth
anniversary. The story of ten decades of dedicated service to Christ's little
ones is inspiring to recall.
After the Civil War one of the most gripping of New York's social
problems was the abandonment of infants in the streets of the City. Poverty,
immigration, inadequate housing, and a financial depression were the factors
which made abandonment in ever present evil.
In 1869, it had no longer become an item of news, or even of interest,
to find an abandoned infant on the doorsteps of a rich family, in the hallway
of a tenement, or at the entrance to a convent. St. Peter's Convent on Barclay
Street was a favorite refuge of distraught mothers and very often the Sisters
on opening their door in the morning, would find a tiny waif deposited on
the doorstep.
Sister Mary Irene, of St. Peter's Convent called the attention of
Mother Mary Jerome, the Superior of the Sisters of Charity, to the need
of rescuing these children. When the matter was as placed before Archbishop
(afterwards Cardinal) McCloskey, he not only sanctioned the plan of providing
an asylum for the care of abandoned children, but urged the Sisters to put
this plan into execution. Accordingly Mother Mary Jerome directed Sister
Irene to make a beginning. With only $5.00 as capital, but with undaunted
courage and unlimited faith and confidence in God, Sister Irene undertook
the work.
On October 8, 1869 the New York Foundling Asylum of the Sisters of
Charity, in the City of New York was incorporated. Three days later on October
11th, the Feast of the Maternity of Our Lady, Sister Irene and her two companions,
Sister Teresa Vincent and Sister Ann Aloysia, moved into a small house at
17 East 12th Street. Although they expected to spend three months in preparing
for the opening of the institutions, an infant was laid on the door-step
that very first night. Before January 1, 1870, the proposed opening date,
they had received 123 babies.
Within a year, a larger house at 3 Washington Square was secured.
Soon this also proved to be inadequate. In 1870, the State Legislature authorized
the City to grant a site for a new building, and appropriated $100,000 toward
its erection on condition that a similar amount be raised for the same purpose
by private contributions.
Sister Irene at once set to work to take advantage of this help and
organized a committee amongst some of the leading financiers and business
men of the time. The construction of the buildings on the property bounded
by 68th and 69th Streets and by Lexington and Third Avenues was begun in
1872. In November 1873, the main building was completed and occupied. Through
the years other buildings were added until the Foundling Hospital was completed.
While the building was in progress the services of the institution
were expanding. Shortly after its establishment, the Foundling became a
refuge not only for abandoned babies but also for unmarried mothers.
Another important development was the inauguration of the Boarding
Department. Because of the lack of room in the late house on 12th Street,
the Sisters asked their neighbors to care for some of the infants in their
own homes. Thus was inaugurated, on November 15, 1869, the Boarding department
of the Foundling.
As soon as Sister Irene was settled in the new building on 68th Street,
she established the Adoption Department to find suitable permanent homes
for those children who were legally free for adoption. Every care was taken
to ensure proper guardianship for each child. The date of the first recorded
placement of a child in a free home, with a view to adoption, was May 1873.
In 1880, one of Sister Irene's dreams was realized when St. Anne's
Maternity Pavilion was erected, in order to shelter friendless, expectant
mothers, whether married or unmarried, and to provide proper confinement
care for them. Although originally planned only for mother's care by the
Sisters, St. Anne's was opened in 1915 to outside physicians who wished
to send private patients for confinement. In 1946, St. Anne's Maternity
Pavilion was closed to private cases in order to expand and improve services
to the unmarried mothers who were the original objects of Sister Irene's
concern.
In 1881 St. John's Hospital for Children, and Pediatric Service of
the New York Foundling Hospital was erected. In 1944, the Hospital service
of St. John's was discontinued in order to expand and improve services to
well children in need of care away from their own homes and thus meet an
urgent need in this community.
In 1910, St. Joseph By The Sea, at Huguenot, Staten Island, was opened
as an annex to the New York foundling Hospital.
In 1930, a Social Service Department was established in order to provide
casework services for unmarried mothers cared for in the Shelter. It was
about the same time that professionally trained workers were added to the
staff of the Boarding and Adoption Departments.
The Foundling Hospital also has a training school for the training
of young ladies as Infant Care Technicians, a Pediatric Clinic for foster
children, a Prenatal Clinic, a Development clinic for children being considered
for adoptive placement, and -its newest service-a Child Guidance Clinic.
In 1958 in order to carry on the work of the New York foundling Hospital
and to give adequate coverage to the number of dependent and neglected children
in need of care away from their own homes, the buildings on 68th Street
were replaced by the modern fire-proof building equipped with all the facilities
necessary to carry out a program according to the highest standards of child
care.
As the New York Foundling Hospital enters its 100th year of service,
it may be described as a multifunctional social agency providing the following
services:
Nursery care on an emergency basis to abandoned and neglected children
regardless of creed or color;Casework services to families requesting placement
of children;
Placement and supervision of Catholic children in boarding and adoption
homes;
After-Care supervision of children discharged from foster care;
Shelter care and casework services to unmarried mothers.
The unwavering faith, hope, and Christ-like charity with which Sister
Irene opened the first Foundling on East 12th Street have characterized
the unique dedication of the Sisters of Charity, staff and volunteers who
have carried on her work to the present day. It is our prayer that -that
unique spirit-the spirit of Christ-will continue to guide those who have
dedicated themselves to the work of the New York Foundling Hospital in the
years to come.
1900 BENEVOLENT
INSTITUTIONS - CHICAGO, IL
Source: 1909 Rand McNally Street
Guide & Railway Directory
http://www.alookatcook.com/1900/1900_benevolence.htm
Angel Guardian German B. C. Orphan Asylum 1416
Indiana Ave.
Associated Jewish Charities of Chicago 1140,108
LaSalle St.
Austro-Hungarian Benevolent Association 1626,164
Dearborn St.
Baptist Deaconess' Girl's Home 565 W. Superior
St.
Bethesda Home for the Aged 30 Belden Ct.
Beulah Home 2144 N. Clark St.
Bureau of Charities 51 LaSalle St.
Bureau of Personal Service 720 W. 12th St.
Chicago Daily News Fresh Air Sanitarium Fullerton
at Lincoln Park
Chicago Deaconess' Home 222 Erie St.
Chicago Home for Boys 426-434 W. Adams St.
Chicago Home for Convalescent Women 1516 W. Adams
St.
Chicago Home for Incurables 56th & Ellis Ave.
Chicago Home for Jewish Orphans 62nd St. &
Drexel Ave.
Chicago Home for the Friendless 51st & Vincennes
Ave.
Chicago Industrial Home For Girls 4900 Prairie
Ave.
Chicago Nursery and Half Orphan Asylum 175 Burling
St.
Chicago Orphan Asylum 5120 S. Park Ave.
Chicago Relief and Aid Society 820 Ewing St.
Chicago Relief and Aid Society 51 LaSalle St.
Chicago Refuge for Girls 5024 Indiana Ave.
Children's Home and Aid Society 826 Ridge Ave.,
Austin
Church Home for Aged Persons 4325 Ellis Ave.
Cook County Insane Asylum (also known as DUNNING)
64th Ave. & Irving Park Blvd., Dunning, IL
Cook County Poor House at Dunning 64th Ave. &
Irving Park Blvd., Dunning, IL
Danish Old People's Home 306 Walnut St.
Danish Orphan Home 3320 Evergreen Ave.
Danish Young People's Home 3544 Wabash Ave.
Florence Crittenton Anchorage 2615 Indiana Ave.
Foundlings Home 15 and 23 S. Wood St..
Fridhem Old People's Home 11400 Crescent Ave.
(Morgan Park)
German Catholic Orphan Asylum 401 Devon Ave.
German Old People's Home Oak Park, IL
German Society of Chicago 61 LaSalle St.
Hephzibah Children's Home Oak Park, IL
Home for the Aged, Little Sisters of the Poor
Sheffield and Fullerton, Harrison & Troop, 5148 Prairie
Home for Aged Jews 62nd & Drexel Ave.
Home for Aged and Infirm Colored People 610 W.
Garfield Blvd.
Home for Destitute Crippled Children 1653 Park
Ave.
Home for Jewish Friendless & Working Girls
Ellis Ave.. & 53rd St.
Home for Missionaries' Children 11002 Crescent
Ave. (Morgan Park)
Home of the Good Shepherd 1240 Grace St.
Hull House 800 S. Halsted St.
Humane Society 560 Wabash Ave.
Illinois Children's Home and Aid Society 826 Ridge
Ave., Evanston
Illinois Industrial Home for the Blind 19th and
Marshall Blvd.
Illinois Industrial Home for Girls South Evanston
Illinois Industrial School for Girls 134 Clark
St.
Illinois Manual Training School Farm Glenwood
Illinois Masonic Orphans' Home 23,25 Bishop Ct.
Jackson Park Sanitarium La Rabida) 64th St. and
Lake Michigan
Japanese Mission Home 3338 Vernon Ave.
Jewish Agriculturists Aid Society 507 S. Marshfield
Ave.
Jewish Aid Society of Chicago 1245 Waller St.
Jewish Sheltering House 525 Maxwell St.
Legal Aid Association 158 Adams St.
Marcy Home 1335 Newberry Ave.
Margaret Etter Creche 2421 Wabash Ave.
Marks Nathan Jewish Orphan Home 1243, 1249 N.
Wood St.
Martha Washington Home Irving Park Blvd. &
Western Ave.
Methodist Episcopal Old People's Home 1415 Foster
Ave.
Mission of Our Lady of Mercy 1140 W. Jackson Blvd.
Newsboys and Bootblacks Home 1418 S. Wabash Ave.
Norwegian Lutheran Children's Home 58th Ave. &
Irving Park Blvd.
Norwegian Lutheran Deaconess' Home & Hospital
1138 N. Leavitt
Norwegian Old People's Home Avondale and Ceylon
Avenues
Old People's Home 3850 Indiana Ave.
Orthodox Jewish Home for the Aged 831 Albany Ave.
Pacific Garden Mission Home for Girls 94 Federal
St.
Parental School W. Berwyn & Central Park Avenues
Phyllis Wheatley Home 3530 Forest Ave.
Salvation Army Headquarters 399 State St.
Salvation Army Rescue & Maternity Home 1332
LaSalle Ave.
St. Anthony's Orphanage and Hospital 28 Frankfort
St.
St. Charles Home and School for Boys, St. Charles
Office at 79 Dearborn St.
St. Joseph's Home & St. Vincent's Orphan Asylum
5649 N. Hamlin
St. Joseph's Home for Aged and Crippled Hamlin
and Schubert Avenues
St. Joseph's Home for the Friendless 1100 S. May
St.
St. Joseph's Home for Working Girls and Industrial
School 1100 S. May St.
St. Joseph's Orphan Asylum 35th St. and Lake Ave.
St. Joseph Provident Orphan Asylum N. 40th Ave.,
between Diversey and Belmont
St. Mary's Home for Children 2822 Jackson Blvd.
St. Mary's Mission House 850 Washington Blvd.
St. Mary's Training School for Boys, Desplaines,
IL Office at 79 Dearborn St.
St. Vincent's Orphan Asylum Hamlin Ave. and Schubert
St.
Susanna Home 214 33rd St.
Swedish Covenant Hospital and Home of Mercy W.
Foster and Lincoln Ave.
Uhlich Evangelical Lutheran Orphan Asylum 2014
Burling St.
Visitation and Aid Society 79 Dearborn St.
Volunteers of America 1317 Washington Blvd.
Washingtonian Home 1533 W. Madison St.
Western German Baptist Old People's Home 1006
N. Spaulding Ave.
William Raymond Champlin Memorial Home for Boys
515 W. Adams St.
Working Boys Home 1130 W. Jackson Blvd.
Young Women's Christian Association Home 288 Michigan
Ave.
FOR INFORMATION, CORRECTIONS AND/OR SUGGESTIONS!