Records, 1864-1986

DEDHAM TEMPORARY HOME FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN, 1864-1986

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The Temporary Asylum for Discharged Female Prisoners (TADFP) was incorporated on 30 April 1864, its object being "to provide shelter, instruction, and employment for such women as have been discharged from the Correction Institutions of the State, and who, with a desire to reform, have no home but the abode of vice and misery." Located in Dedham, Massachusetts, the asylum came into existence largely through the efforts of Hannah Balch Chickering. The youngest of seven children born ...

Chickering House (Dedham, Mass.)

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Chickering, Hannah B., 1817-1879

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JennieTucker

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Chickering

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Temporary Asylum for Discharged Female Prisoners (Dedham, Mass.)

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The Temporary Asylum for Discharged Female Prisoners, not a state agency, was incorporated by Massachusetts per St 1864, c 183, for the purpose of affording shelter, instruction, and employment to discharged female prisoners. From the description of Agency history record. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 145429775 ...

Dexter, Sarah E.

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Dedham Water Works

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