Papers, 1891, 1894-1897.

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Papers, 1891, 1894-1897.

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Correspondence and reports of Albert Orville Wright, an inspector for the State Board of Control overseeing reformatory, charitable, and penal institutions and former secretary of the State Board of Charities and Reform. Includes lists of inmates of various institutions; reports on county asylums in 1895 and 1896, on insane persons whose support was not properly chargeable to the state, and on investigations concerning insane soldiers of the Civil War kept in state hospitals; and correspondence with various charitable organizations in the United States concerning plans for the Twenty-third National Conference of Charities and Correction, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1896, of which Wright was president.

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Wisconsin. State Board of Control

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The State Board of Control was created by Chapter 221, Laws of 1891, as the State Board of Control of Wisconsin Reformatory, Charitable and Penal Institutions. It assumed the duties of the former State Board of Charities and Reform (WIHV88-A416) and the State Board of Supervision of Wisconsin Charitable, Reformatory, and Penal Institutions (WIHV87-A1267). The State Board of Control was abolished as an independent agency in 1939 and its functions were assumed by divisions of the newl...

Congregational Church

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National Conference of Charities and Correction (U.S.)

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Wright, A. O. (Albert Orville), 1842-1924

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