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Legal correspondence concerning Claude Strail

Collection — manuscript box: 10 - folder 1

Identifier: 1503m

Scope and content

Commitment paper for Claude, Joseph, and Frank Strail to St. John's Catholic Orphan Asylum, and subsequent correspondence and notes relating to the claim.

Dates

1887-1904.

Creator

no primary creator (Person)
St. Vincent's Industrial School (Utica, N.Y.) (Organization)
Herkimer County (N.Y.). Board of Supervisors (Organization)

Language of Material

In English.

Biographical / Historical

In August 1894, L.J. and Adelaide Strail committed their children, Claude, Joseph, and Frank, to St. John's Catholic Orphan Asylum of Utica, New York, due to poverty. Claude Strail was subsequently transferred to St. Vincent's Industrial School in Utica. In about 1897, the school evidently filed a legal claim against the Board of Supervisors of Herkimer County for payment owed to them for the care of Claude Strail. The Board eventually paid the claim in early 1904.