Schuyler County, Illinois, Almshouse Register 1854 – 1921

Schuyler county is under township organization, but the paupers are a county charge. We have nothing to add to what was said about this almshouse in our last report, and nothing to take back. The keeper has occupied his present position since March 1, 1877. His salary is seven hundred dollars, and the expenses, which amounted last year to twenty-seven hundred dollars, are met by the county. The amount expended for outdoor relief was something over a thousand dollars. When visited, this almshouse contained twenty-seven inmates, of whom eight were children and six insane, none of whom were in seclusion or otherwise restrained ; five of them were men capable of farm labor. The county physician receives seventy-five dollars a year, and furnishes medicines, but visits the almshouse only. An almshouse register is kept, but the overseers of the poor do not keep the accounts nor make the reports required by law. ^[1]Reports Made to the General Assembly of Illinois, 1881

In 2000, past Schuyler county coordinator Robin L. Peterson created a list of 232 residents of the Schuyler County Almshouse. This table covered those residents of the Schuyler County Almshouse from 1854 through 1921, providing their name, sex, age, occupation, birthplace, residence, health, date of admission, authority for admission, property, cause of pauperism, date of discharge and remarks. Later county coordinator Dennis Partridge compiled this list into a spreadsheet. The original list is copyright 2000 by Robin L. Peterson. The format of the current display is copyright 2021 by ILGenWeb.

Note at the top of the page: Record of inmates as nearly as could be found on former Registers on March 1st, J. R. Leary, Supt.

Almshouse Register