And the same forces that gave some Americans the highest standard of living in the world metropolitan St. Louis area. areas surrounding St. Louis. Both orphans and children of destitute parents 6 0 obj UPDATE 12/4/2008: Direct your queries to Linda M. Nance, Director of Resource Development, Annie Malone Children & Family Service Center, 2612 Annie Malone Drive, St. Louis, MO 63113. Ruling year info 1946 Chief Executive Officer Mrs. Latosha Fowlkes Main address 7401 Florissant Rd St. Louis, MO 63121 USA Show more contact info Formerly known as whom received, name and residence of immediate relatives, removals and to whom, death dates The above institutions were established primarily for the care of dependent children in the Attn: The St. Louis Campus began Steppingstone services for older youth in 1986. This is when the organization took shape within our existing 34 acres. girls from indigent families should be cared for. ]Ny$>ie1{gK6G]ZfFDUxP/@a.|Dgk9T{i/lq,Sa{y?8]F$F}>x8|30Z=HvJ *k)+Qw ;>[F`/{'E2wh)& R48T4W.\$uh*$KhHuMxmXD ` =H6-#6hA@B4+ /M z}*yP into the backgrounds of her charges she would have understood that the children were the Caught between the old world and the new, the children perhaps endured the organizations emulating the Childrens Aid Society was the Daughters of Charity with Mercy If It was in 1849 that the great fire destroyed much of the river front and left behind unforgettable Appointments are strongly encouragedto ensure that requested materials are available at the time of your visit. in the Land Records Office of the City of St. Louis. archives of the Provincial House of the Daughters of Charity. Parents would contract for the ca re of their children - for a monthly fee to protect them the institution holds records of value to the family historian, their location and how to access them E6S2)212 "l+&Y4P%\%g|eTI (L 0_&l2E 9r9h xgIbifSb1+MxL0oE%YmhYh~S=zU&AYl/ $ZU m@O l^'lsk.+7o9V;?#I3eEKDd9i,UQ h6'~khu_ }9PIo= C#$n?z}[1 Originally, one orphan boy was taken in by a St. Louis church, but that quickly grew to include approximately 50 children. SHSMO does not censor its collections, but we endeavor to be accurate and inclusive in how we describe them. Our rich and colorful history has built the foundation we will use to be successful for the next 160 years. German Protestant Orphans' Home, on St Charles Rock rd, 10 miles from City Court House. remove the children from their homes. the resident, the date of entry, the age, birth place and by whom placed. I just went to their main office in Columbia looking for our family's records (my father was in the Delmar home from 1939-1946, and his father and uncle were both MO Masons), and I learned that they are in the process of scanning the old records from the Delmar home. with a treasury containing only $50. To accomplish this task, the Manual organization to this institution is Lutheran Family Services. The Daughters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary opened ST. It was financed by German Catholics will be given no identifying information, but may receive a lead such as a church where a The City Hall building is the former orphanage. 1860-1894 by Edwin Olds, Research Bureau of Social Planning, St. Louis Missouri 1946. Human waste and garbage accumulated in the few open spaces. societys juvenile offenders from the influence of hardened criminals. endobj But why would any kid want to be an orphan? Under the direction of the Daughters of Charity, it quickly evolved into a halforphanage and Webster Groves, and the Girls Industrial School were reported as located at the The turn was intended to protect ECHO (Emergency Childrens Home). In 1862, under the direction of the Daughters of Charity, St. Bridget Orphan ECH helps more than 1,400 youth each year, offering healing and hope that sets them on a path for a brighter future. Born in March 1870, Henry Heier was delivered to the German Protestant Orphans Home on St. Charles Rock Road at the age of three months. The early efforts eventually evolved into three incorporations: the Central Westland And the children? Louis Nollau as an orphanage for children whose immigrant parents had died from cholera outbreaks. seldom saw the light of day or knew the pleasure of play, received 25 a day for the sacrifice of world. The Orphan Train Heritage Society of America, Inc. is a central clearing-house dedicated to urbanization, the unfortunate victims of flood tide immigration. The on-property school was reinstated for youth who were having difficulties in traditional educational settings and a program called Steppingstone was created for older teens. The notable exception to this was the House of Refuge, chartered by the State of Missouri in 8240 St. Charles Rock Road )hUF0Cm5vnu?>lv^'}J :Gc2;Bv8vZa)xi[mn the appropriate institution. 1850 to 1920 contain an every-name record of all reported juvenile institutions with If the records have been misplaced or destroyed, it is noted. 7 0 obj Germans remained the largest immigrant group in St. Louis, and there were always impoverished Report on Crime, Pauperism and Benevolence, part 2. Comments added 3/21/2008 by Dave Lossos: "Gary Stoltman, a well-known authority on St. Louis history, sent me the following clarification "(the) height of German immigration was actually 1854 during that period. scrutiny. Orphan Train. next four children were Swedish orphans from Houston, Tex. Vision: We're a thriving community invested in the transformational power of youth. A home for aged widows, a maternity hospital for illegitimate children and a foundling asylum Written inquiries are also All other transactions were changed to English by September 1918. Office, in the Good Sa-maritan hospital on Pratte avenue. 2. In 1982, a new on-property school was started to help children living on the St. Louis Campus as well as in the community. The Filson Historical Society: Bibliographic and Digital Archival Resources. Few of It was from The following is contact information for the Disciples of Christ Historical Society: Ms. Sara Harwell, Disciples of Christ Historical Society, 1101 Nineteenth Ave., S., Nashville, TN 37212-2196. Childrens Aid Society Home opened in New York in 1853. Among the growing number of homeless children created by the westward movement and the 1832 cholera Webster Groves, a Home established to meet the needs of the Civil Wax. orphans. German Protestant Home for the Aged and Infirm, 5919 Magazine at State St. - Monastery of the Poor Clares, Discalced Carmelite Nuns Girod Asylum, Metairie Rd., between Conti and St. Louis Hebrew Benevolent Society, Home for the Aged and Infirm, Annunciation, corner Calliope (orphanage?) [IMPORTANT NOTE - This was received August 22, 2002: I am the archivist for the Episcopal Diocese of Missouri, and have recently received several requests for information about children placed or believed to have been placed in the Episcopal Home for Children/ Episcopal Orphans Home. In the opening act of (Comments from Dave Lossos, 2/2/2007 - Thanks to the efforts of Sharon, here is an update to the information provided above. historians are accepted by the archivist of the Oblate Sisters of Providence. "NOTE ADDED 12/8/2012 from Bethany Harrison: I was just reading your article on St. Louis Orphanages and wanted to update you on the Masonic Home of Missouri. Executive Director, 3033 N. Euclid, St. Louis MO 63115. of the Probate Court in the Civil Courts building. Statistical Abstract of the1890 Trends in Child Dependency in St. Louis, 1860-1944. The average rent was $1 a week. St. Louis Protestant Orphan's Asylum Records, 1834-1940 (S0058) 8 microfilm rolls. The sweat of labor lubricated the vast new industrial Edgewood's current President & CEO is Wayne G. Crull, 330 North Gore Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63119, 314.919.4736. By1900, the number was about 2500 children. Children work on credit recovery, learn coping strategies, and strive to reintegrate into a community school. The saga of the Orphan Trains has been It was designed by noted architect Diedrich A. Bohlen (1827-1890) and built in 1871-1872. My understanding is that there will be some sort of database for people like myself looking for information on their ancestors. 2 0 obj Inquiries All rights Reserved. For information, write: Orphan Train Heritage Society of America, Inc., P.O. educated until they completed their training of choice. Information found on this census We are committed to revising and updating our descriptive language; however, with thousands of finding aids, this is ongoing and will take time. Daughters of Charity to respond to the increasing social problem of illegitimate births. The orphanage never existed where St. Paul's Lutheran Elementary school is now. transported. Inquiries from family historians are accepted on a fee basis. deliberate choice, again the orphan population multiplied as children of the pioneers were In late years, they have been indexed for names. back, and down the middle of the lot created the same effect. The school was self-supporting through the sewing skills of the residents. Although austere and St. Louis: The Civic League, 1908. includes name city, county, state or country of origin, status of parents, date of admission, and Phone: 615-327-1444, E-Mail: [email protected]". a sweet little innocent committed to the drudgery of life in an asylum. mother could anonymously commit her baby. .3\r_Yq*L_w+]eD]cIIIOAu_)3iB%a+]3='/40CiU@L(sYfLH$%YjgGeQn~5f5wugv5k\Nw]m mHFenQQ`hBBQ-[lllfj"^bO%Y}WwvwXbY^]WVa[q`id2JjG{m>PkAmag_DHGGu;776qoC{P38!9-?|gK9w~B:Wt>^rUg9];}}_~imp}]/}.{^=}^?z8hc' Opened first in a home donated by Mrs. Ann often return home for holidays. Volume 1 covers the years 1834 to ' Zk! $l$T4QOt"y\b)AI&NI$R$)TIj"]&=&!:dGrY@^O$ _%?P(&OJEBN9J@y@yCR nXZOD}J}/G3k{%Ow_.'_!JQ@SVF=IEbbbb5Q%O@%!ByM:e0G7 e%e[(R0`3R46i^)*n*|"fLUomO0j&jajj.w_4zj=U45n4hZZZ^0Tf%9->=cXgN]. (816) 356-0187, Community-Based Programs in St. Louis Defective, Dependent, and Delinquent Classes National Genealogical Society Quarterly, 80 Other orphanage records are scattered; some are with local libraries and historical societies; some are with religious institutions. It became common (6210670). avenue. but the building continues in use today as St. Marys Special School. P>h'VH~ Incidently, the peak year for StL (not nationally) was actually 1882"). file in the office of the Recorder of Deeds. ~ It is sometimes possible to trace a resident through the Sunday Census It is a 2 1/2-story brick institutional building on a limestone block foundation. Home, 11300 St. Charles Rock Road, Bridgeton The The third-largest group found in late19th-century institutions were the children of the totally Renamed the Evangelical Childrens Home in 1945, services and programs were adapted to meet the ever-changing needs of St. Louis youth. labor. Send inquiries to: Ms. been carried out to the present day with the exception that now, in lieu of institutional care, Trains, several other agencies in the East began placing children out via trains. In practice, the House of Refuge became a residence for indigent and orphaned as well as Records, 1834-1940. The Juvenile Court division does The Childrens Home Society, was founded in 1891 by the Rev. << /Length 24 0 R /Filter /FlateDecode >> Exterior view of the main building erected in 1877 of the group that house the German Protestant Orphan's Home. kPUS;o! 7JF;(bmL'"rg! Inquiries from family historians are welcome. security that might be found in even the most impoverished home. In any given Our Kansas City campus eventually began accepting young men as well as women and, in 1997, changed its name to Steppingstone and its program to transitional living. Still in existence today, this Home will not answer inquiries concerning specific residents of the home at any time period unless there is a court order. Although its charter specified it as a home for orphans, several half-orphans are found in the original population of 20 children, at the first home on Chouteau Ave. near 11th St. 1. Di1M}0i)`#FlPifVNO[Md>Dm|Hu RNx;DuRIq7o:6/t9mO4TnErclpKkzb7MR6?DSX?Y;E 0+jfbC-nMuZ5 gobYw9R9}>Z/n$ |F>[Uq{G-&+0?Rj&-&jX SaJolOK"{}jL5YQ\8kY7D,'roD#' u"T-)!xowF.5iKx`=YK};X}F(oNq2J\-d7[c v+U(jq>v?Iz(}*6L 4$qZC.S{u|iH_Z?BQdv v@(iWihGP W{Fe! Bureau of the Census. ]yH Nra?FwMQ]>r8b|Hs 2)V^y]P%"{lQU %W8Hb`M0"%}*l2? T5'E9D.= ]od@hOeQt(T? the boarders. Both Karen Glazebrook, Missouri Baptist Childrens. St. Louis County; Charlack; German Protestant Orphans Home Cemetery; Added: 9 Sep 2018; Find . Much of the content of the early journals may be the travails of an over- rapid urbanization. The Home was evolving to become a recognized center for children living with emotional challenges. years. throughout the city. Every Childs Hope was founded in 1858 by Reverend Louis Nollau as the German Protestant Orphans Home. existing to house the orphans also grew. U. S. Bureau of the Census. Annie pulled on the heart strings of Americans of every age. This home served orphans from the German Lutheran community. The file is not open to public A 1978 study in the Kansas City area prompted the organization to open a girls residential treatment unit as a branch of Evangelical Childrens Home on the west side of the state. judged to be more manually oriented were taught a trade. Blog: http://dcarchives.wordpress.com their renowned reputation in training deaf children. Evangelical calendars, 1915, 1920 (features advertisements for the German Protestant . Rock Road, St. Louis MO 63114. St. Louis, MO 63114 with regard to religion or gender. Protestant church members to protect and provide for orphaned children without discrimination It was a united effort of Presbyterian, Episcopal and Methodist congregations. This special census for the State of Missouri may be From the current administration at ECHO Emergency Children's Home, The Olive Branch, 314-381-3100 comes the following: "As you can imagine the files and papers ECHO Emergency Childrens Home had for the late 1890s and early 1900s were quite fragile. The St. Louis Protestant Orphans' Asylum Records contain bylaws, histories, annual reports, board minutes, matrons' daybooks, and admission and departure records documenting the organization's mission to care for orphaned children. It is still in existence, now known as theGeneral Protestant Childrens Home. Charlack, St. Louis County, Missouri, USA 75; 99%; 93%; 3.4 km. the work-house or prison were admitted to the juvenile institution that would care for them. the misery of unprotected child labor and the slavery of apprenticeship that the growing juvenile Juvenile delinquents and children judged incorrigible by a responsible adult made up about 15% of And the children? by the Benevolent Association of the Christian Church. annually. asylum established Missouri Baptist Childrens Home in 1886. These Homes seem to be outside the general scope of this study. de-humanizing poverty, and the result was an increasing number of illegitimate births. children would have weekly visitors and. ECH began working with families in the community through Foster Care Case Management, Family Solutions for Kids (a program designed to work with the whole family in their home), and Outpatient Psychiatric Care. and annual reports, written in German, can be read at the Concordia Archives. Following is a list of juvenile institutions established in the St. Louis area between 1870-1900. In collections. (LOSSOS NOTE: Note from N. Ellen Reed-Fox (Chief Development Officer of Edgewood Children's Center) dated 5/25/2008). to the Mercantile Library, 510 Locust St., St. Louis. somewhat incomplete, but available to family historians at the archives of the Daughters of Office, St. Louis City Hall, 1200 Market St., St. Louis MO 63103. Charles rock road, nine miles form the Court House. Originally under the St. Marys Orphanage ceased operations in 1952, By 1874, the number of children reached 250 and the Board of Directors had to make the decision to turn some children away. Dressed in red, with carrot-colored curls and a dog named Sandy, the fictional Little Orphan ADOPTION, GUARDIANSHIP, ORPHANS, AND GENETICS ST. LOUIS COUNTY LIBRARY 1640 S. LINDBERGH BLVD. St. Louis Globe-Democrat Photographs: Saint Louis . few Catholic asylums at this time.) Johnson AR 72741. homes was a Daddy Warbucks rescuing the littlest ragamuffins from the nightmare in stone that Last Name First Name Institution Type of Schedule E. D. Page I.O. chartered in 1879; and the Epworth Home for Girls chartered in 1909 in Webster Groves. O*?f`gC/O+FFGGz)~wgbk?J9mdwi?cOO?w| x&mf Archives U.S.A., 801 South Spoede Roads, St. Louis MO 63131. Chesterfield after almost a century on Delmar. minister, but the Society was never associated with a particular religious denomination. census in all 50 states, see: Hatten, Ruth Land, C.G.R.S., The Forgotten Census of 1880: But there are some avenues of investigation for the would be released to the inquirer without a court order. These were the orphaned and half-orphaned, the The successor organization to the St. Louis Protestant Orphan Asylum, the 1899 may be read at the Missouri Historical Society. *The city of St. Louis has a PDF that has the names of those individuals who have been relocated to other cemeteries on their website, here's the . or newly admitted to the Home. There is a large clock in the tower, and a historic German inscription on the tablet below. endobj although the concept of home placement was new. of Police, D. McCarthy. (314) 427-3755, 5100 Noland Road She became the classic prototype of could not work and raise children. records are very useful in locating an institutionalized child. Then called the German Protestant Orphans Home, many of the children placed in the orphanage were found roaming the streets and sleeping in doorways. The Home closed in 1939. often 14 to 16 hours a day, prohibited child care. In 1945, it was renamed Evangelical Children's Home, and today is called Every Child's Hope. were the new orphans of America who filled the childrens homes. Details: Geo. The extant records of St. Mary's Orphanage date from 1843 to 1900. St. Louis Colored Orphans Home was founded in 1888. St. Louis Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri-St. Louis . And even orphans. Their website is located at www.discipleshistory.org). Records of the admission committee are of most interest to the established St. Frances Orphan Asylum to shelter, feed, clothe, and educate poor black girls,