From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Thu Jan 19 10:50:36 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k0JHoaRc017301; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 10:50:36 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k0JHoWRg022273 for ; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 10:50:32 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k0JFNEFI006456 for ; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 10:23:14 -0500 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k0JFNEJL006455 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 10:23:14 -0500 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k0JF8CFI006379 for ; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 10:08:12 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k0JHZK2Z013396 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 10:35:20 -0700 X-Envelope-From: Kith-n-Kin@cox.net Thu Jan 19 10:35:20 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k0JHZKRc013387 for ; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 10:35:20 -0700 Received: from fed1rmmtao09.cox.net (fed1rmmtao09.cox.net [68.230.241.30]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k0JHZHb2011037 for ; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 10:35:18 -0700 Received: from TOWER ([24.255.62.181]) by fed1rmmtao09.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.05.02 201-2131-123-102-20050715) with ESMTP id <20060119173518.ROWS25099.fed1rmmtao09.cox.net@TOWER>; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 12:35:18 -0500 From: "Kith-n-Kin" To: "'Elizabeth Ewing Fox'" , Subject: RE: [ROOTS-L] Dodgeville, Iowa, WI Insane Asylum Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 10:35:00 -0700 Message-ID: <007201c61d1e$b059b010$6401a8c0@TOWER> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6626 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 In-Reply-To: <79e77478f8d00aea32dfe58cfdfb4e42@charter.net> Importance: Normal X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by lists5.rootsweb.com id k0JHZKRc013387 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com I was looking some things up to give you some idea, and found that the Iowa County Insane Asylum was in Linden, not Dodgeville. Looks to be not too far away, though. In the Censuses, I found: Year: 1910; Census Place: Linden Twp, Iowa, Wisconsin; Series: T624; Roll: 1711; Page: 161B; Enumeration District: 57; Part: 2; Line: 89. Iowa County Insane Asylum and Home "Ewing, Susan B., Inmate, f w 58 single b Rhode Island, fb New York, mb New York, " Year: 1920; Census Place: Linden, Iowa, Wisconsin; Roll: T625_1989; Page: 10B; Enumeration District: 160; Image: 270. Iowa Co. Asylum Insane Dept. "Eing, Susan, f w 68 m b [NS], fb US, mb US" It appears, from other reading, that each county had its own "insane asylum" in addition to two major "state" asylums. These were, perhaps, what others may have called "poor farms". It is interesting that Linden was the center of a lead mining operation -- Here is something you may find helpful: from http://www.poorhousestory.com/WISC_ARCHIVES_HOLDINGS.htm IOWA Wisconsin, County Court (Iowa County) Title: Insanity decisions, 1859-1936. Quantity: 0.4 c.f. (1 volume) Arrangement: Chronological. Summary: Finding aid: Index for 1859-1877 on separate pages, inserted in front of volume. Records of insanity decisions (1859-77, 1892-95) made by the County Court Judge including judge's decision based on recommendations; judge's orders releasing persons no longer judged insane; judge's order granting guardianship of insane persons; and guardians' accounts. Other cases include wife abandonment; dependent child; appointment of guardians for "spendthrifts," and judge's order forcing individuals in the poorhouse. The results of an 1892 jury trial on sanity are included (pp. 1-103, 222-227. 336-369). Later records (1879-1936) contain only names of insane persons and doctors; date of application for judgment and date of judgment; and remarks on release, transfer, parole, or death of insane person. 1898-1936 records include date of commitment and institution (pp. 200-221, 228-271). Going to the http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/libraryarchives/arcat.html http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/libraryarchives/contact.asp http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/libraryarchives/reference_form.asp It looks as though the Iowa County records are at an Area Research Center in Platteville: http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/libraryarchives/arcnet/plattvil.asp I suspect you can write to them with all the information you have and they will be able to look this up for you. Regards, Pat (in Tucson) |-----Original Message----- |From: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com |[mailto:roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Elizabeth Ewing Fox |Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 08:10 |To: ROOTS-M@rootsweb.com |Subject: [ROOTS-L] Dodgeville, Iowa, WI Insane Asylum | | |I am looking for information of my G Grandmother, Susannah (Briggs) |Ewing who was a patient of the Dodgeville WI Insane Asylum for many |years. I know that she was still alive in 1923. I would like to know |date of admission, diagnosis, death date, burial place, etc. She was a |Vermonter and the rest of her family is buried in Vermont. She |did have |a sister in Eau Claire - Crossman family. Elizabeth Ewing Fox: |bettefox@charter.net | |