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Susquehanna Valley Home, early history
“The little waifs of fortune cast upon its care must be made to feel the fatherly and motherly spirit throbbing in their bosoms.... To this end every means that parental care and wisdom can devise is employed to make the early years of these little unfortunates as bright and free from vicious influences as possible.”
“During six years, 316 boys and 200 girls have received their discharge, leaving thirty-six fewer inmates than at the beginning of the present administration; 310 have been taken into families, 109 restored to parents, twenty-seven were removed by Orange county to a home established by themselves at Middletown; thirteen were taken to St.Mary’s Home of this city, nine removed by Tompkins county to a less expensive asylum, forty-two were returned to superintendents of poor, six ran away, six died and four were sent to the House of Refuge.” Text from the “History of Broome County,” edited by H. P. Smith, Syracuse, N.Y., D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1885 |