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Search free records of executions for your brick-wall ancestor in America. Insane Asylums Search In the 1800’s and earlier you could be institutionalized for a wide variety of things: Wives and daughters who did not obey their husbands or fathers could be put away, alcoholics, depressed people...
During the last few years the reading public has been often shocked by reports of great cruelty and sometimes deaths from harsh treatment of the insane in public asylums for the care of that unfortunate class. One of the most recent of such reports has come from the Cook County Asylum for ...