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Re: looking for orphanage records
From:
Jim Corsaro <[log in to unmask]>
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A LISTSERV list for discussions pertaining to New York State history." <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 29 Aug 1997 11:48:59 -0900
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It may have been an orphanage in 1860, it was a well-to-do boys
school in the Fifties, however.

                jim corsaro

James Corsaro
Associate Librarian
Manuscripts and Special Collections
New York State Library
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On Wed, 27 Aug 1997 [log in to unmask] wrote:

> In a message dated 97-08-27 12:33:23 EDT, you write:
>
> << I grew up in Niagara Falls, and when I was a kid, the school was
>  known as the Deveaux School and was not an orphanage, but a school for
>  the "rich kids," that is, a school for well-to-do boys; no girls.It
>  closed sometime in the 60s or 7 >>
>
> The 1860 Census for New York calls it a school for orphaned boys.
>

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