1880 Schedules of Defective, Dependent, and Delinquent Classes

 

for

 

Lincoln County, Nebraska 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Deaf Mutes

 

Pg. #

Line #

Name

City & Co.

Self Support?

Age Deaf

Occ.

Cause

Semi. Mute

Semi Deaf

Inmate of Institution

Length of time in Inst.

Discharge

Insane

Idiotic

Blind

2

48 Reeves George                        

 


Idiots

 

Pg. #

Line #

Name

City & Co.

Self Support?

Age Idiocy

Occ.

Cause

Size of head

Inmate at training school?

Length time in school

Discharge

Insane

Blind

Deaf

Epileptic

Paralyzed

2

19 Dalton Josephine                          
33 21 Johnson, Margaret Lincoln Partly Birth Unknown Medium No              
3 35 O'Reiley, Michael A. North Platte, Lincoln Child Birth Unknown Small No              

 


Inhabitants in Prison

 

Pg. #

Line #

Name

City & Co.

Place of imprisonment

US, State or City prisoner

Why in prison

Date of Incarceration

Alleged Offense

Sentence

Hard Labor? What?

Working inside or outside walls of prison

Labor Contracted out

Lincoln Co. Jail

29 16 Gaffney, Nicholas Unknown Missouri County Jail State Awaiting trial   Rape        
29 17 Newton, Burt I. Boston Massachusetts County Jail State Awaiting trial   Rape & Adultry        
29 18 Roney, John McPherson? Station Lincoln County Jail State Awaiting trial   Grand Larceny        
29 19 Lanigom, edward New York New York County Jail State Serving imprisonment   Petty Larceny        
29 20 Bird, Alfred South Western Texas County Jail State Awaiting trial   Assault & battery        
29 21 Chapman, Geo   County Jail   Imprisoned for insanity            

 


Insane

 

Pg. #

Line #

Name

City & Co.

Inmate of Institution

Disease

Duration of present attack

Number of attacks

Age 1st attack occurred

Usually under lock and key

Restrained

Inmate of hospital or asylum insane?

Length of time in such place?

Discharge

Epileptic Suicidal

Homicidal

11

1 Smawlh??d James North Plate Precinct Lincoln                          
5 7 Knapp, Mary T. North Platte Lincoln Co.   Mania 7 years 1 42 Has to be watched Harmless No          
21 48 Ri??ma Adolph North Platte, Lincoln Co   Epilepsy 8 years 1   Requires watching Harmless Assylum, Lincoln Neb 1 yr 1880 x    
27 9 Hagar, Wm. P.* North Platte Lincoln Co   Dementia Unkown     No No No          
29 21 Chapman, George     Mania Unkown     Requires watching No No, "stranger to this place"          

*Hagar has a mania for the company of small children, disease is liable to come from self abuse, he is self supporting partly


Pauper and Indigent Inhabitants in institutions,
Poor houses or asylums or boarded at public expense

 

Pg. #

Line #

Name

City & Co.

How supported

Able Bodied

Habitually intemperate

epileptic

Convicted of crime

Disabled

Born in house?

Date admission

Others family members in house?

Blind

Deaf Dumb Insane

Idiotic

?

? White Thomas North Platte Lincoln Cost of County No Yes     Parylytic ???   6 months          
4 29 Henry, Isaac Baltimore Maryland Cost of County No       Right leg amputated   8 months          
? ? Burn Thomas Chicago Illinois Cost of County         "Champ," runover by R.R. Train & lived just 2 weeks              
6? 15? Murphy, Augustne? North Platte Lincoln Cost of County He is now       Had a sprained foot 2 months            
25 44 King, Mattsy? Unknown, Mo Cost of County         Lying In 1 month            

The above is all that we had for any length of time, transients & tramps or those who have stayed anytime less than a week, no account has been kept for them.

 

 

 

 

 

Transcribed and contributed by:  Shauna Williams

 

 

 

 

 

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