Erie County Poor House Ledgers, Volume 5. Register of Persons Received at the Erie County Alms House, October 1, 1871-October 1, 1873

Title

Erie County Poor House Ledgers, Volume 5. Register of Persons Received at the Erie County Alms House, October 1, 1871-October 1, 1873

Description

Includes name, age, nativity, gender, occupation, date of commitment and by whom, cause of commitment, death, date of discharge, notes about disposition, and number of days in the institution. Identifies individual as pauper, vagrant, insane, idiot, and orphan. In chronological order, no index

Date

1871-1873

Source

Erie County Poor House Ledgers

Publisher

Buffalo & Erie County Public Library (Publisher of digital)

Rights

Digital image copyright 2017 by the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Images in this collection are not to be used for any commercial purposes without the expressed written permission of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Users of this website are free to utilize material from this collection for non-commercial and educational purposes.

Relation

Digital Collections of the B&ECPL

Type

Text

Format

image/jpeg

Language

Citation

Erie County Alms House (Buffalo, N.Y.), “Erie County Poor House Ledgers, Volume 5. Register of Persons Received at the Erie County Alms House, October 1, 1871-October 1, 1873,” B&ECPL Digital Collections, accessed October 4, 2024, https://digital.buffalolib.org/document/87.