Massachusetts School for the Feeble-Minded 1890

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: Waltham, Massachusetts

Records freely available on FamilySearch.org as scanned documents. Transcription by E Childs. More information is available on the original - see the "source" column for link. All cities/towns are Massachusetts unless otherwise specified.

Common abbreviations used in the chart below:

• Imp. or Impr. - Improved (also "n. imp." for "not improved")
• Ret. - Returned
• Hosp. - Hospital
• Trans. - Transferred
• Com - Committed
• "A.H." - Almshouse

Admissions for the year 1890

First name(s)	Last name	Age	Birthplace	Residence	Admitted	Discharged	Notes	Source
Mary	Gaynor	9	Boston	Boston	7 Feb 1890			[357]
James T.	Ferehery	13	Chelsea	Chelsea	3 Mar 1890	27 Mar 1897	Taken home by mother	[357]
Walter T.	Berry	14	Boston	Boston	6 Mar 1890	24 Mar 1890	Taken home by mother	[357]
Albert	Dobson	16	Lawrence	Lawrence	10 Mar 1890	25 Apr 1904	Died - Organic heart disease	[357]
Sophia	Junisky	15	New York	Boston	15 Mar 1890	23 Apr 1919	To Grafton State Hospital	[357]
Mary	Stone	27	Salem	Salem	22 Mar 1890	9 Mar 1895	Committed to Danvers Lunatic Hospital	[357]
Mary A.	Healey	17	Boston	Boston	26 Mar 1890			[357]
Hattie B.	Giles	9	Boston	Malden	29 Mar 1890			[357]
George H.	Moeller	6	Boston	Jamaica Plain	31 Mar 1890			[357]
Johanna	Costello	9	Worcester	Worcester	31 Mar 1890	20 Sep 1892	Taken to Clark Inst. for Deaf and Dumb	[357]
Eugene	O'Neill	7	Nova Scotia	Ware	31 Mar 1890	14 May 1891	Taken home by Ov. of Poor, Warren	[357]
Wm.	McGill	9	New Hampshire	Boston	31 Mar 1890	4 Dec 1900	Committed to Worcester Insane Hospital	[357]
George V.	Smith	8	Boston	Lawrence	31 May 1890	2 May 1897	Died - Organic brain disease	[357]
George E.	Fettredge	7	Boston	Boston	31 Mar 1890	1 Oct 1897	Not returned from vacation	[357]
Mary	McCarthy	15	Boston	Boston	2 Apr 1890	14 Aug 1902	Died - Epilepsy	[357]
Matthew	Donnelly	8	Lowell	Lowell	2 Apr 1890	26 May 1897	Died - Epilepsy	[357]
Richard	McGee	11	Cambridge	Cambridge	2 Apr 1890	22 Oct 1894	To Cambridge Almshouse	[357]
Mary	Manning	17	Southboro	Brockton	2 Apr 1890	13 Aug 1905	Died - Homicidal drowning	[357]
Victoria	Crowton	11	England	Boston	2 Apr 1890	13 Apr 1891	Taken home by mother	[357]
Edward	Callahan	5	Boston	Boston	2 Apr 1890	8 Jun 1914	N. Imp. To Worcester State Hospital	[357]
Ida M.	Borden	11	Fall River	Fall River	3 Apr 1890	5 May 1910	Died - Organic heart disease	[357]
Albert	McDonald	8	Scituate	Rockland	9 Apr 1890			[357]
Lonny	Sullivan	8	New Bedford	New Bedford	9 Apr 1890	29 Jan 1891	Taken home by mother	[357]
Walter S.	Halliley	13	Springfield	Boston	9 Apr 1890	18 Apr 1898	Taken home by mother	[357]
Mary	Madden	7	Boston	Boston	10 Apr 1890			[357]
Emma C.	Laha	10	Cambridge	Cambridge	10 Apr 1890	19 Oct 1890	Died - Epilepsy	[357]
Annie J.	McElwaine	15	Boston	Hyde Park	10 Apr 1890	2 Jul 1890	Taken home by mother	[357]
John	Barrett	13	Cambridge	Cambridge	11 Apr 1890	22 Oct 1894	To Cambridge Almshouse	[358]
Elizabeth	Tobin	13	Cambridge	Cambridge	11 Apr 1890			[358]
Allen W.	Stover	7	Boston	Winthrop	11 Apr 1890	25 Sep 1890	Died - Epilepsy	[358]
John	Froton	6	Boston	Lynn	11 Apr 1890	3 Jan 1923	Died - Tub. enteritis	[358]
Wm. F.	Stetson	11	Danversport	Danversport	12 Apr 1890	12 Jul 1890	Taken home by father	[358]
John L.	McDonald	7	Milton	Milton	12 Apr 1890	13 May 1892	Removed by parents	[358]
Rudolph	Tichner	14	Boston	Boston	14 Apr 1890	31 Dec 1907	Imp. Taken home on vacation & not returned	[358]
Ellen N.	Hasson	10	Boston	Boston	15 Apr 1890	9 Sep 1891	Died - Epilepsy	[358]
Mary T.	McCue	12	Brookline	Brookline	15 Apr 1890	11 Jul 1890	Taken home by father	[358]
Justin	Howe	5		St. Pri. School	16 Apr 1890			[358]
Rosa	Kenney	10		St. Pri. School	16 Apr 1890	23 Aug 1890	Removed by Lowell Overseers of Poor	[358]
Frank B.	Mace	8		St. Pri. School	16 Apr 1890	15 Jan 1924	Imp. Trans. to Belchertown	[358]
Joseph	Webster	8		St. Pri. School	16 Apr 1890			[358]
Herbert	Ames	10		St. Pri. School	16 Apr 1890	26 Nov 1894	Taken home by brother	[358]
Allen	Senior	11	England	Fall River	17 Apr 1890	19 Sep 1893	Kept at home to work	[358]
Mary	Bresnahan	8	New Hampshire	Vermont	18 Apr 1890	29 Jun 1895	Taken home by mother. Improved.	[358]
Eliz. E.	McLaughlin	15	Boston	Boston	18 Apr 1890	1 Mar 1894	Not returned from vacation. Removed by parents	[358]
Guy F.	King	8	Boston	Boston	23 Apr 1890	30 Jul 1891	Removed by Bd. L.&C. to relatives in Providence	[358]
Fred C.	Taylor	9	Springfield	Springfield	24 Apr 1890	24 Nov 1922	Imp. To Belchertown	[358]
Fred I.	Raymond	16	Winchendon	Winchendon	24 Apr 1890	21 Aug 1898	Died - Epilepsy	[358]
Katie	Finkenauer	14	Boston	Boston	24 Apr 1890	28 Mar 1923	Trans. to Belchertown. Imp.	[358]
Georgiana	Lefebore	15	New Hampshire	Marlboro	24 Apr 1890	16 May 1890	Died - Phthisis pulmonalis	[358]
Frank	Look	10	Newburyport	Newburyport	26 Apr 1890	16 Dec 1914	Died - Septic peritonitis	[358]
Annie	McDowell	18	Ireland	Lynn	29 Apr 1890	6 Sep 1890	Removed by Lawrence Ov. of Poor	[358]
Mary J.	McDowell	19	Ireland	Lynn	29 Apr 1890	6 Sep 1890	Removed by Lawrence Ov. of Poor	[358]
Minnie	Morgan	13	England	Boston	28 Apr 1890	22 Oct 1892	Removed by parents	[358]
Mary K.	Hart	8	Connecticut	Chicopee Falls	28 Apr 1890	31 Dec 1890	Removed by father	[358]
Ida M.	Furlong	14	Rhode Island	Rhode Island	1 May 1890	20 Jul 1892	Removed by mother	[358]
Ellen J.	Campbell	11	P.E. Island	Gloucester	1 May 1890	30 Nov 1900	Died - Pulmonary tuberculosis	[358]
Kate	Watson	14	New Hampshire	New Hampshire	1 May 1890	24 Sep 1890	Died - Organic disease of brain	[358]
Consuella	Watson	11	New Hampshire	New Hampshire	1 May 1890	20 May 1891	Taken away by parents	[358]
Cora F.	Matthews	14	Lancaster	Lancaster	2 May 1890	5 Oct 1890	Died - Epilepsy	[358]
Pierre	Lemaire	15	Connecticut	Fall River	5 May 1890	24 Aug 1892	Died - Consumption	[358]
Wm. J.	Curry	7	Connecticut	Worcester	7 May 1890	11 May 1894	Removed by Overseers of Poor of Worcester	[358]
Richard	Prior	7	Northbridge	Whitinsville	7 May 1890	20 Nov 1895	Not returned from vacation.	[359]
Maud L.	Flagg	9	New Hampshire	New Hampshire	7 May 1890	29 Oct 1891	Died - Epilepsy	[359]
Mary J.	Francis	20	New Bedford	St. Almshouse	8 May 1890	4 Aug 1890	Taken home by friends	[359]
Joseph	White	13	Boston	Boston	8 May 1890	30 Nov 1894	Kept at home by brother	[359]
Robert	Tulloch	14	Hudson	Boston	9 May 1890	15 Jan 1924	Imp. Trans. to Belchertown	[359]
Adaline J.	Millowitsch	14	Boston	Boston	12 May 1890	19 Nov 1890	Removed by mother	[359]
Wm. T.	Flowers	17	Boston	Boston	12 May 1890	3 Oct 1892	Died - Heart disease	[359]
Hattie G.	Greenleaf	5	New Boston	New Boston	12 May 1890	12 Jul 1898	Removed by Overseers of Poor of Sandisfield	[359]
Wm. K.	Johnson	12	New York	Boston	14 May 1890			[359]
Anna M.	Thumith	8	Wellesley	Wellesley	14 May 1890	3 Oct 1898	To help her mother	[359]
Mary A.	Plunkett	11	Springfield	Springfield	14 May 1890	11 Mar 1891	Taken away by Overseers of Poor	[359]
Nellie F.	West	16	Rhode Island	Rhode Island	20 May 1890	31 Oct 1895	Taken to Providence by Commissioner of Public School	[359]
Clemen	Abody	14	Dalton	Dalton	21 May 1890	29 Aug 1891	Taken home by parents	[359]
D. Everett	Turner	8	Holbrook	Brockton	22 May 1890	7 Jun 1898	To Hospital for Epileptics	[359]
Harry L.	Hale	8	New Hampshire	Holyoke	26 May 1890	5 Aug 1898	Removed by order of St. Secretary N.H.	[359]
Chas. E.	Chadwick	15	Chester	Chester	26 May 1890	1 Apr 1891	Taken home by father	[359]
Patrick F.	Clifford	9	Boston	Boston	3 Jun 1890			[359]
Margaret	Whalen	8	M.L. Mills	Brockton	3 Jun 1890	6 Jun 1893	Died - Marasmus. Body taken by father	[359]
Geo. S.	Aldridge	8	Attleboro	Boston	4 Jun 1890	3 Oct 1898	Taken home to work by mother	[359]
Fred	Jones	6	Worcester	Worcester	4 Jun 1890			[359]
Heiman	Czarlinsky	17	Germany	Boston	5 Jun 1890	29 Sep 1913	Insane. Com. to Westboro State Hospital	[359]
Honora	Kenneally	13	Boston	Boston	7 Jun 1890	6 Jul 1901	Died - Meningitis	[359]
Henry	Gregory	17	England	New Bedford	9 Jun 1890	16 Jul 1890	Removed by New Bedford Ov. of Poor	[359]
Mary A.	Conners	12	Lawrence	Lawrence	9 Jun 1890	28 Dec 1891	Kept at home	[359]
Geo. P.	Kee	7	Charlestown	Boston	10 Jun 1890	14 Jun 1892	Died - Epilepsy	[359]
Vina	Bunyan	5	Dalton	Dalton	18 Jun 1890	20 Nov 1892	Removed by parents	[359]
Fred W.	Wilson	11	Everett	Everett	19 Jun 1890	18 Apr 1909	Died - Pulmonary tuberculosis	[359]
Katie	Durgan	15	Waltham	Waltham	25 Jun 1890	17 Sep 1890	Went back to Blind Asylum	[359]
Beatrice	Reed	10	Boston	Boston	25 Jun 1890	1 Mar 1892	Not returned from visit	[359]
Frank	Partridge	10	Boston	Boston	3 Jul 1890	20 Sep 1893	Removed by parents. Not returned from vacation	[359]
Chas. A.	Sweatland	10	Pelham	Belchertown	7 Jul 1890	15 Mar 1900	Impr. Taken away by O. of P. Belchertown	[359]
Amy B.	Pike	10	Salisbury	Salisbury	9 Jul 1890	7 Sep 1890	Sick	[359]
Neil H.	Canney	14	Boston	Boston	9 Jul 1890	11 Dec 1891	Taken home by mother	[359]
Hattie	Eastman	26	Indiana	Chelsea	8 Jul 1890	18 Jul 1890	Insane. Trans. to Westboro	[359]
Edith G.	Tuttle	24	Boston	So. Acton	9 Jul 1890		For[mer] No. 580. Fr[om] Tewks. Asy.	[360]
Archie	Thurll	14(?)	Trans. from Northampton L. H.		9 Jul 1890	3 Dec 1894	Taken home by Ov. Poor of Adams. Fr[om] North. Hosp.	[360]
Timothy	Keefe	13	Palmer	Ware	9 Jul 1890	28 Jan 1899	To Taunton Ins. Hosp. Fr[om] North. Hosp.	[360]
Oscar	Frasey	19	Springfield	Springfield	9 Jul 1890	13 Dec 1899	Died - Pneumonia	[360]
Anna L.	Jones	12	Westfield	Tolland	12 Jul 1890	1 Oct 1892	Taken to Clarke Inst., Northampton	[360]
James	Croacher	13	New Bedford	New Bedford	14 Jul 1890	7 Oct 1892	Now working in mill at home	[360]
Florence E.	Horton	6	Rhode Island	Rhode Island	18 Jul 1890	10 Feb 1892	Died - Marasmus	[360]
Lettie M.	Weed	12	Maine	Jamaica Plain	21 Jul 1890	2 Nov 1899	Died - Phthisis Pulmonalis. Body sent home.	[360]
Wm. E.	Warriner	21	Lee	Holyoke	21 Jul 1890	26 Jul 1917	Died - Biliary calculi, acute peritonitis	[360]
Annie E.	Bucek	20	Boston	Everett	1 Aug 1890	16 Jun 1891	Removed by Bd. L&C to Worcester Hospital	[360]
Bertie J.	Taylor	10	New Hampshire	New Hampshire	12 Aug 1890	5 Feb 1897	Taken to Hillsboro County House, N.H.	[360]
Edward J.	Hanlon	12	New Hampshire	Hopkinton	13 Aug 1890	5 Jun 1891	Died - Consumption	[360]
Maggie	Dwyer	19	Fall River	Boston	27 Aug 1890	18 Dec 1899	Died - Pneumonia	[360]
Thomas E.	Bishop	16	Revere	Rhode Island	4 Sep 1890	2 Feb 1896	Taken home by father	[360]
Gustaf F.	Nelson	7	Sweden	Brockton	9 Sep 1890	17 Mar 1892	Taken home by parents	[360]
Marian	Shute	6	Boston	Newton	15 Sep 1890	24 Sep 1890	Taken home by friends	[360]
Ernest L.	Foster	7	Brewster	Brewster	15 Sep 1890	26 Jun 1918	Died - Epilepsy	[360]
Eva M.	Reynolds	20	Lynn	Lynn	15 Sep 1890	23 May 1891	Taken away by parents. Rem. to Florida	[360]
Delia	Cooper	10	Somerville	Somerville	18 Sep 1890	5 Feb 1901	Died - Influenza	[360]
Annie A.	Coburn	9	Vermont	Fitchburg	19 Sep 1890	16 Feb 1891	Taken home by father	[360]
Mary	Lyons	19	Raynham	Campello	19 Sep 1890	23 Nov 1892	Removed by parents	[360]
Mary E.	Dunn	19	New Brunswick	Boston	22 Sep 1890	2 Oct 1897	Kept at home by mother	[360]
Chas. E.	Johnson	10	Sweden	Waltham	27 Sep 1890			[360]
Alvina	Wilson	12	Worcester	Worcester	29 Sep 1890			[360]
James M.	Scott	9	Boston	Boston	29 Sep 1890	10 Oct 1892	Removed by parents. Going to public school	[360]
Charles	Stewart	14	Waltham	Waltham	30 Sep 1890	7 Oct 1892	Removed by parents. Now working on farm at home	[360]
Wm.	Clark	11	Lynn	No. Abington	30 Sep 1890	3 Oct 1898	Taken home to work for wages	[360]
Kenneth R.	Laws	7	Bedford	Bedford	30 Sep 1890	4 Dec 1900	Much impr. Not returned from vacation.	[360]
Alice H.	Stetson	19	Somerville	Roxbury	3 Oct 1890			[360]
Guy C.	Severance	10	Middlebury, Vt.	Middlebury, Vt	3 Oct 1890	16 Apr 1891	Sick. Taken home	[360]
Thos. A.	Trousdale	10	Framingham	Roxbury	9 Oct 1890	14 Nov 1895	Not returned from vacation	[360]
James M.	Finley	8	Boston	Boston	11 Oct 1890	9 Sep 1892	Removed by parents	[360]
Charles	Sumpter	14	Northbridge	Whitinsville	16 Oct 1890	24 Apr 1894	Removed by Overseers of Poor of Douglas	[360]
Wm. L.	Sullivan	15	Boston	Boston	18 Oct 1890	1 Jan 1891	Taken home sick, and became insane	[360]
Joseph	Thomas	17	Jersey City, N.J.	Newbury, Vt.	20 Oct 1890	15 May 1895	Trans. to State Almshouse	[361]
William	Elyward	15	So. Boston	So. Boston	20 Oct 1890	1 Aug 1891	Taken home, much improved	[361]
Ellen T.	Cavanaugh	18	Boston	Dorchester	20 Oct 1890	31 Jul 1910	Died - Gangrene of neck & haemoptysis	[361]
Mabel F.	Bragg	16	Saugus	Longmeadow	20 Oct 1890	11 Feb 1907	Very much imp.	[361]
Rosa L.	Tucker	17	Dalton	Dalton	20 Oct 1890			[361]
Clara	Side	15	Pittsfield	S.A.H.	21 Oct 1890	3 Dec 1891	Died - Typhoid fever	[361]
Annie	Coffey	8	Sherborn	Church Home, So. Boston	28 Oct 1890	20 Apr 1907	Not imp. Com. to Worc. Hosp.	[361]
Geo. J.	Shewbridge	9	Boston	Roxbury	28 Oct 1890			[361]
Chas. H.	Washburn	14	New Orleans, La.	Peabody	29 Oct 1890	20 Mar 1893	Trans. to Westboro Insane Hospital	[361]
Amanda E.	Terrio	15	Amherst, N.S.	Rockland	29 Oct 1890	17 Jan 1894	Taken home to work by mother	[361]
Helen Louise	Pratt	12	Peabody	Salem	29 Oct 1890	14 Oct 1918	Died - Influenza, broncho pneumonia	[361]
Rosa	Hafer	8	Boston	Boston	30 Oct 1890	4 Nov 1890	Removed by father	[361]
Edgar G.	Godfrey	9	Newburyport	Newburyport A.H.	1 Nov 1890	1 Oct 1907	Very much imp. Ran away and not returned	[361]
Scott Lee	Dunham	10	Athens, Vt.	Athens, Vt.	5 Nov 1890	29 Jun 1895	Taken home by mother. Improved	[361]
Mary	Keneally	24	Boston	No. End Mission	7 Nov 1890	1 Jan 1919	Transferred to Wrentham	[361]
John	Hagerty	6	Boston	Roxbury	10 Nov 1890	1 May 1908	Not imp. To Mass. Hospital for Epileptics	[361]
John	Duffee Jr.	2	Fall River	Boston	19 Nov 1890	1 Oct 1891	Taken home by mother	[361]
Annie	Sullivan	8	Newton	Newton	24 Nov 1890			[361]
Mabel C.	Poor	14	Peabody	Peabody	8 Dec 1890	14 Nov 1895	Kept at home	[361]
Theodore	Gotthardt	14	Boston	Boston	9 Dec 1890	26 Dec 1891	Kept at home	[361]
Chas.	Burnham	10	Danvers	Children's Mission, Boston	11 Dec 1890	11 Sep 1897	Obtained situation outside. Much impr.	[361]
Grace A.	Walker	15	Halifax, N.S.	So. Boston	17 Dec 1890	16 Mar 1904	Died - Valvular heart disease	[361]
Sarah	Gaffney	8	Charlestown	Boston	16 Dec 1890	19 Dec 1891	Taken home by father	[361]
Kate	Roberts	19	New Hampshire	Tewksbury A.H.	19 Dec 1890	16 Apr 1924	To Belchertown. Imp.	[361]
Sarah J.	Neylon	29	Worcester	Worcester	29 Dec 1890	10 Oct 1892	Removed by mother	[361]
Mary	Fallon	12	Boston	Rainsford Isl.	31 Dec 1890	28 Aug 1892	Died - Consumption	[361]

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