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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wright, Henrietta Christine, (search)
uestion of juvenile pauperism and crime would long since have been solved. But this was not to be, and almshouses and institutions still retained the greater number of children committed to their care. The evil was greatly augmented by the passage of the now celebrated children's law in 1875, which contained a clause providing that all children committed to institutions should be placed in those controlled by persons of the same religious faith as the parents of the children. Mrs. Charles Russell Lowell says: The direct effect of this provision is found in the establishment of nine Roman Catholic and two Hebrew institutions to receive committed children, all except three having between 300 and 1,300 inmates each. Within twenty years after this law passed the number of inmates in the twenty-seven institutions benefited directly by it increased from 9,000 to 16,000. In 1889, of the 20,384 children cared for in the city institutions, only 1,776 were orphans and 4,987 half-orphan
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Lowell, Charles Russell 1835- (search)
Lowell, Charles Russell 1835- Military officer; born in Boston, June 2, 1835; graduated at Harvard in 1854, and when the Civil War broke out was one of the first to offer his services. He was made captain of cavalry in May, 1861, and served on the staff of General McClellan until the fall of 1862, when he organized the 2d Massachusetts Cavalry, and was made colonel in the spring of 1863. As a leader of cavalry he performed much good service in Virginia, and was made brigadier-general of volunteers on Sheridan's recommendation the day before his death. He died of wounds at Cedar Creek, near Middletown, Va., Oct. 20, 1864.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Lowell, Josephine Shaw 1843- (search)
Lowell, Josephine Shaw 1843- Philanthropist; born in West Roxbury, Mass., Dec. 16, 1843; was educated in Europe, Boston, and New York; and travelled abroad from 1851 to 1855. She married Charles Russell Lowell in 1863, and has devoted her life to charity. She was one of the commissioners of the New York State board of charities in 1877-89; and was a leader of the Women's Municipal Purity Auxiliary in 1894. She is author of Public relief and private charity; and Industrial arbitration and conciliation.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Pauperism in the United States. (search)
s is called Margaret, the mother of criminals. Mr. Dugdale estimated that 1,200 of this family in seventy-five years cost the community directly and indirectly not less than $1,250,000. The second study was made in New York State under the direction of the legislature by the State board of charities. The investigation occupied the secretary of this board and various assistants for nearly two years, and the antecedents of every inmate of the poor-houses of the State were examined. Mrs. C. R. Lowell, who has been so active in the charities of New York State, and who has achieved a well-merited reputation, read a report on the results of this investigation. She describes typical women. The description of two cases may be quoted, and they will serve for all. In the Herkimer county poor-house a single woman, aged sixty-four years, twenty of which have been spent in the poor-house: has had six illegitimate children, four of whom have been paupers. In the Montgomery county poor