Overcast cool damp day. RAIN. Arose 7:15 A.M. To college 7:45 to 9 A.M. Shot pool. No English. Wrote in diary. Helped father, studied etc. To college 11-12 M. To Troy with Nellie to take unruly kid to Orphan Asylum. Studied. Wrote letters etc. Talked. To P.O. To bed 11:15 P.M.
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If the "unruly kid" was a boy, then he likely went to the Troy Catholic Boys Orphanage, established in 1850. There was a separate school for the girls and infants founded around the same time and run by the Sisters of Charity. The Troy Orphan Asylum is still in operation and still serving the needs of children, though it is now called Vanderheyden Hall.
I wonder if one of the ways of dealing with unruly children at the time was to put them in an orphan asylum, whether true orphans or not.
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If the "unruly kid" was a boy, then he likely went to the Troy Catholic Boys Orphanage, established in 1850. There was a separate school for the girls and infants founded around the same time and run by the Sisters of Charity. The Troy Orphan Asylum is still in operation and still serving the needs of children, though it is now called Vanderheyden Hall.
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