Massachusetts School for the Feeble-Minded 1901

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

Records freely available on FamilySearch.org as scanned documents. Transcription by E Childs.

Abbreviations

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
• Conf. - Confirmed?
• Bd - Board, as in Board of Insanity

Admissions for the Year 1901

First Name	Last Name	Age	Birthplace	Residence	Admitted	Discharged	Notes	Source
Michael C.	Carter	15	Boston	Boston	1 Jan 1901	25 Jan 1904	Very much impr. Not returned from vacation	[159]
Ruth E.	Walker	17	Fitchburg	Fitchburg	1 Jan 1901	16 Apr 1924	Imp. To Belchertown.	[159]
Walter P.	Beven	13	England	Quincy	1 Jan 1901	15 May 1902	Not impr. Taken home by mother against advice of Supt.	[159]
Jennie P.	Flagg	16	Concord, N.H.	Fitchburg	3 Jan 1901	4 Sep 1901	Impr. Taken away by sister.	[159]
Carrie	Southers	30	Boston	Cambridge	4 Jan 1901			[159]
Margaret	Conroy	14	Fall River	Fall River	7 Jan 1901	9 Mar 1910	Imp. To Wrentham School. Trans. from Taunton Ins. Hosp.	[159]
Thomas W.	Gardner	14	Fall River	Fall River	7 Jan 1901			[159]
Harold H.	Smith	18	Lynn	Lynn	16 Jan 1901	25 Apr 1908	Died - Rheumatic fever	[159]
Richard	Wing	6	Sandwich	Sandwich	23 Jan 1901	29 Mar 1902	Died - General tuberculosis	[159]
Lesley W.	Thomas	9	No. Easton	Brockton	28 Jan 1901			[159]
Edward E.	Kelly	13	Worcester	Worcester	1 Feb 1901			[159]
Samuel	Gordee	5	Boston	Tewksbury Hosp.	1 Feb 1901	26 Mar 1902	Died - Marasmus	[159]
Fred	Corrigan	17	Boston	Boston	14 Feb 1901	4 Apr 1901	Not impr. Taken home by mother.	[159]
Margaret	Gambion	16	Boston	Lancaster Ind. Sch.	15 Feb 1901	10 Jul 1901	Insane. Com. to Taunton Ins. Hosp.	[159]
Joseph	Sorrentino	4	Boston	Tewksbury Hosp.	21 Feb 1901	3 Jan 1911	Epilepsy	[159]
Albert F.	Bachelder	17	Northampton, N.H.	Northampton, N.H.	1 Mar 1901	10 Feb 1903	Impr. Trans. to Sch. F. M. at Laconia, N.H.	[159]
Clara	Bean	9	Fitchburg	Worc. Ins. Hosp.	14 Mar 1901	26 Oct 1902	Died - Gen. Tuberculosis	[159]
Edith A.	Wetmore	8	Boston	Boston	28 Mar 1901	1 Aug 1905	Died - Epilepsy	[159]
Madeline P.	Lennan	8	Gardiner, Maine	Fall River	1 Apr 1901	15 Dec 1901	Not impr. Taken home by mother.	[159]
Patrick	Conley	9	Boston	Boston	4 Apr 1901	5 Jun 1908	Imp. To Wrentham State School	[160]
Walter E.	Purple	11	W. Springfield	Cambridge	15 Apr 1901	4 Oct 1918	Died - Influenza and pneumonia	[160]
Mary	Manchester	17	Fall River	Fall River	25 Apr 1901	13 Jan 1905	Imp. Taken home by mother. Com. by Court from Lancaster Ind. Sch.	[160]
Edith M.	Webber	14	Boston	Boston	12 May 1901	9 Oct 1901	Impr. Taken home by parents against advice of Supt.	[160]
Mary	Joy	13	Salem	Salem	17 May 1901			[160]
Inez G.	Kingsley	10	Canada	Fall River	20 May 1901	15 Jan 1924	Transf. to Belchertown	[160]
Edward	Bateman	18	Concord, N.H.	Cambridge	24 May 1901	2 Jul 1901	Ran away. Not impr. Probably insane. Not returned.	[160]
John F.	Hamlet	7	Fall River	Fall River	5 Jun 1901	5 Jun 1908	Impr. To Wrentham State School	[160]
Mary	McDonough	6	Ireland	Lawrence	6 Jun 1901	26 Jul 1903	Died - Epilepsy	[160]
Joseph	David	23	Fall River	Boston	6 Jun 1901	8 Mar 1919	Died - Broncho pneumonia	[160]
Giocoma	Ruggiero	6	Messina	Boston	17 Jun 1901	27 Jan 1902	Not impr. Taken home by father.	[160]
Margaret M.	Dennis	9	Kennebunk, Me.	Haverhill	18 Jun 1901	22 Apr 1908	Imp. Com. To Worcester Insane Hospital	[160]
Victoria B.	Kempton	7	Brooklyn, N.Y.	Lynn	22 Jun 1901	31 Jan 1908	Not imp. Com. to Danvers Hosp.	[160]
Nellie	Kenney	11		Canton	8 Jul 1901	13 Feb 1904	Impr. Not ret. from vacation.	[160]
Flora	Nye	8 (?)			8 Jul 1901	11 Sep 1907	Died - Typhoid	[160]
Henry	Chagnon	13	Canada		11 Jul 1901	22 Apr 1908	Not imp. Com. to Worcester Hosp.	[160]
Mary E.	Collins	6	Waltham	Waltham	18 Jul 1901			[160]
Kenneth R.	Laws	18	Bedford	Bedford	24 Jul 1901			[160]
John	Neal	39	Boston	Long Island Hosp.	26 Jul 1901	15 Mar 1902	Not impr. Returned to Long Island Hospital	[160]
John	McKenna	52		Long Island Hosp.	26 Jul 1901	15 Mar 1902	Not impr. Returned to Long Island Hospital	[160]
Wm. H.	Tancred	20	Boston	Boston	30 Jul 1901	15 Sep 1903	Very much impr. Taken home by parents.	[160]
Raymond J.	Robinson	17	Landoff, N.H.	Cheshire	1 Aug 1901	25 Apr 1905	Died - La Grippe	[160]
Emily H.	Davis	16	Boston	Boston	3 Aug 1901	8 Sep 1902	Very much impr. Taken home by parents. From Dorchester Ind. School	[160]
Chas.	Belcher	13	Pittsfield	Pittsfield	9 Aug 1901	16 Sep 1902	Not impr. Not returned from vacation	[160]
Annie B.	Perkins	36	Ellsworth, Me.	Melrose	12 Aug 1901	26 Nov 1901	Not impr. Taken home by sister.	[160]
Elmer	Grooms	16	Wisconsin	State Hospital	14 Aug 1901	20 Feb 1917	Imp. Visit conf.	[160]
Daniel	Kane	10	Unknown	State Hospital	14 Aug 1901	14 Jul 1916	Escape Conf. Impr.	[160]
Bruce	Walthers	6	Unknown	State Hospital	14 Aug 1901	13 May 1914	Died - Pulmonary Tuberculosis	[160]
Chas. F.	Goodwin	17	Wenham	Danvers	16 Aug 1901	15 Jan 1904	Much impr. Not returned from vacation	[160]
Walter	Flaherty	2	Unknown	Cambridge	21 Aug 1901	28 Apr 1916	Died - Pulmonary Tuberculosis Trans...from State Hosp.	[160]
Ernest A.	Mayhew	15	Mass	Edgartown	21 Aug 1901	1 Oct 1904	Not impr. Com. to Worcester. [Trans. from State Hosp.]	[160]
Chas. P.	Driscoll	11	Beverley	Beverley	3 Sep 1901	3 Aug 1911	Imp. Visit conf. [Trans from] Lyman School	[160]
John Herbert	Hammond	11	Woburn	Woburn	4 Sep 1901	6 Jul 1908	Visit conf.	[160]
Bertha F.	Hutchinson	15	Wilmington	Reading	11 Sep 1901	9 Mar 1910	Imp. To Wrentham State School	[160]
Owen Raymond	Lord	13	Berwick, Me.	Berwick, Me	16 Sep 1901	8 Feb 1909	To Maine School for Feeble-Minded	[161]
Margaret E.	Dyer	11	Brockton	Brockton	25 Sep 1901	6 Jan 1903	Impr. Not returned from vacation	[161]
Marion T.	Peaslee	14	Manhattan, Kansas	Boston	25 Sep 1901	9 Mar 1910	Imp. To Wrentham State School	[161]
John A.	Hanley	10	Holyoke	Holyoke	28 Sep 1901	3 Oct 1918	Died - Influenza and pneumonia	[161]
Florence E.	Parks	10	Hanson	Lynn	30 Sep 1901	2 Nov 1907	Very greatly imp. Taken on vacation & not returned. Ward of Children's Aid Society.	[161]
Mary A.	Finnegan	17	Boston	Boston	4 Oct 1901	9 Mar 1910	Imp. To Wrentham State School	[161]
Farrell	Caulfield	15	Boston	Boston	4 Oct 1901	17 Oct 1907	Very much imp. Taken home by brother.	[161]
Stanley P.	Booth	15	New Bedford	New Bedford	9 Oct 1901			[161]
Edward	Butler	23	Vinal Haven, Me.	Quincy	12 Oct 1901	24 Mar 1908	Died - Exhaustion of chronic idiocy	[161]
John	Butler	17	Cambridge	Quincy	12 Oct 1901	13 Nov 1901	Died - Inanition	[161]
Roscoe G.	Craig (col)	13	Providence, R.I.	Providence, R.I.	14 Oct 1901	15 Oct 1904	Much impr.	[161]
Esther	Mittel	7	Russia	Boston	15 Oct 1901	28 Feb 1902	Not impr. Taken home by mother.	[161]
John A.	Sjostet	11	Boston	Boston	16 Oct 1901	5 Jun 1905	Imp. To Wrentham State School	[161]
Louie F.	Durell	23	Hyde Park	Hyde Park	16 Oct 1901	8 Oct 1915	Died - Lobar Pneumonia	[161]
S. Edith	Griswold	15	Granville	Springfield	17 Oct 1901	1 Jul 1908	Imp. To home. Com. by Court from Lancaster Ind. Sch.	[161]
Wm. H. Jr.	Lowe	8	Andover	Billerica	17 Oct 1901	9 Jan 1905	Imp.	[161]
Elmer P.	Cunningham	15	Auburn, R.I.	Rockland	18 Oct 1901	14 May 1914	Died - Chronic Valvular Heart Disease	[161]
Mary A.	Babcock	11	Sackville, N.B.	Somerville	23 Oct 1901	15 Jan 1924	Imp. Trans. to Belchertown	[161]
John J.	Gronberg	8	Fitchburg	Quincy	30 Oct 1901	13 Mar 1908	Died - Pneumonia	[161]
Henry	Lake	10	Lynn	Lynn	4 Nov 1901			[161]
Joseph A.	Randall	13	Cambridge	Cambridge	4 Nov 1901	14 Jan 1904	Impr. Not ret. from vacation	[161]
Wm. F.	Steele	19	Somerville	Cambridge	5 Nov 1901			[161]
Edward O.	Hogan	13	Boston	Everett	6 Nov 1901	9 Sep 1903	Impr. Not ret. from vacation. Kept home by parents	[161]
Ernest F.	Brandt	15	Brockton	Brockton	7 Nov 1901	2 Nov 1907	Imp. Taken on vacation and not returned	[161]
Chas.	Devlin	15	Boston		7 Nov 1901	25 Jun 1903	Imp. Ran away, not returned. Trans...from Lyman Sch.	[161]
Chas.	Hill	14	Ashuelot, N.H.		7 Nov 1901	22 Oct 1902	Ran away. Not impr. Was not returned. [Trans. from Lyman Sch.]	[161]
Arthur F.	Collier	16	Attleboro	Worcester	7 Nov 1901	1 Feb 1902	Ran away. Not impr. Was not returned. [Trans. from Lyman Sch.]	[161]
Delia	Flannagan	21	Ireland	Boston	9 Nov 1901	7 Jul 1905	Imp. Taken home by friends	[161]
Louis P.	Anthony	10	Worcester	Everett	13 Nov 1901	14 Nov 1901	Taken home by parents	[161]
Hazel C.	Dowell	10			13 Nov 1901	6 Jul 1905	Died - Aortic insufficiency Trans...from State Hospital	[161]
Wm.	Doherty	8(?)			13 Nov 1901	5 Jul 1911	Imp. Visit conf. [Trans.from State Hospital]	[161]
Cecil S.	Kelsey	13	Montreal, Can	Lynn	13 Nov 1901	20 Nov 1908	Died - Pneumonia	[161]
Rose Mary	True	16	Oxton, Eng.	Newton	14 Nov 1901	15 May 1906	Died - Measles	[161]
Chas.	Marshall	18	Boston	Somerville	18 Nov 1901			[161]
Victor E.	Larson	7	Amesbury	Amesbury	20 Nov 1901	20 Jul 1913	Imp. Escape conf. Trans. by Bd. of Insanity from State Hospital	[162]
Winthrop B.	Keyes	11	Pittsfield	Pittsfield	22 Nov 1901	7 Oct 1910	Died - Epilepsy	[162]
Leon	Garb	6	Chelsea	Chelsea	23 Nov 1901	10 Jul 1923	Died - Pleuritis	[162]
Rosa	Garb	4	Chelsea	Chelsea	23 Nov 1901	19 Jul 1906	Died - Lobar pneumonia	[162]
Wm. J.	Galvin	8	Malden	Malden	28 Nov 1901	26 Sep 1919	Died - Lobar pneumonia	[162]
Arthur	Freeman	6	Newton	Newton	2 Dec 1901	1 May 1908	Not imp. To Mass. Hosp. for Epileptics	[162]
Harold R.	Gallup	8	Hyde Park	Hyde Park	2 Dec 1901	27 Jun 1908	On vacation and not returned.	[162]
Alice M.	Meader	12	Bowdoinham, Me	Beverly	11 Dec 1901	12 Oct 1918	Died - Influenza, Broncho pneumonia	[162]
John L.	Fratus	11	Boston	Quincy	11 Dec 1901	25 Sep 1903	Very much impr. Taken home to attend school	[162]
Everett M.	Clifford	5	Franklin, N.H.	Franklin, N.H.	19 Dec 1901	30 Jun 1903	Imp. Transferred to N.H. School for Feeble-minded	[162]
James A.	McElliney	15	Winchester	Watertown	26 Dec 1901	8 Feb 1913	N. Imp. Taken home by family	[162]
Reuben	Rosen	4	Boston	Boston	27 Dec 1901	6 Jan 1906	Died - Exh. of chronic idiocy	[162]

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