Erie County Poor House Ledgers

Title

Erie County Poor House Ledgers

Description

The Erie County Poorhouse of Buffalo, NY and succeeding institutions known as the Erie County Alms House, Erie County Hospital, and Erie County Home & Infirmary, operated as a social safety net for the region's poor and infirm. From 1851 to 1926, the Poorhouse was located on Main Street in Buffalo, the current site of the University at Buffalo's South Campus.

The collection consists of 15 ledgers recording children “bound out”/adopted (1863-1868), intake registers (children 1829-1841-1852, adults/families 1829-1845, 1861-1864, 1871-1889, 1908-1923), and hospital and death registers (1854-1867,1897-1952). 

See the finding aid for more information.
An index for the records can be found here.

Collection Items

Erie County Poor House (Buffalo, N.Y.) 1829-1844

Erie County Poor House (Buffalo, N.Y.) 1863-1868

Erie County Poor House (Buffalo, N.Y.) 1841-1852

Erie County Poor House (Buffalo, N.Y.) 1861-1864

Erie County Alms House (Buffalo, N.Y.) 1871-1873

Erie County Alms House (Buffalo, N.Y.) 1872-1874

Erie County State Alms House (Buffalo, N.Y.) 1873-1899

Erie County Hospital (Buffalo, N.Y.) 1908-1923

Erie County Hospital (Buffalo, N.Y.) 1854-1867

Erie County Alms House (Buffalo, N.Y.) 1897-1928

Erie County Hospital (Buffalo, N.Y.) 1898 –1919

Erie County Hospital (Buffalo, N.Y.) 1907 - [1918]

Erie County Hospital (Buffalo, N.Y.) 1918 – [1925]

Erie County Home and Infirmary (Alden, N.Y.) 1926-1941

Erie County Home and Infirmary (Alden, N.Y.) 1942-1952
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