The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1895-03-13
Report Of Directors Of. the Poor
House of Employment
Of
Somerset County, Pa,
Court and Grand Jury for the Year
Ending Dec. 3lst, 4. D., 1894.


ton of the Act of Assembly approved
the 18th day of April, ls45, providing
for the erection of a "House Of Employ
inemt and Support of the Poor of said
County, the undersigned Directors
herewith respectfully submit and lay
before you their report for the year
ending December 81, 1894. showing the
number and sex Of all persons
maintained and employed in said
House of Employment and supported
or assisted elsewhere, Is well as the
names of those who have died AT said
House Of Employment during the year,
and Of the children 10y them indentar-
ed, with the names of their masters,
their occupations and callings.
We, also, herewith submit an ac-
count of all sales, donations, deyises
and bequests, and moneys received by
or for them.
In addition 10 the information re-
quired by the Act OF Assembly, the
Board of Directors herewith furnish
under suitable headings the names of
those who have been assisted else
where, and, also, the children who
were maintained in private families
under the Act Of Assembly approved
18th June, 1883, and the amounts paid
Tor their maintenance. AIso, the
names of all persons removed TO other
Institutions Tor medical treatment and
teaching.
We, also, submit an account of the
repairs made, description Of buildings
erected during the year, condition OF
the farm. products Of the same, mate
rials made and manufactured, improve
nents made or added, together with
short history OF the House Of Employ
Inent, as well as ali other items which
may be Of Interest to the Court, Grand
Jury and the Pubiic
Ali OF which is respectfully submit
ted and certified this 3lst day Of De
eember, \. ID. 1884,.
Attest - Joseph l.. MILLER,
L. {. Colbon JOSIAH d. WEIGLE,
Clerk. JACOB MCGiREGOR.
Directors OF the Poor.
Ia submitting this cIr annual report
Of the house Of Employment of Som
erseg County we are reminded Of this
significant fact: In April of tine
present wear, We viii celebrate the one
hundreith anniversary OF centennial
OF the constituting and establishing
0f Somerset County. In April, We also
can celebrate the fiitieth anniversary
OF bi-centennial of the es.al fishing and
constituting Of the House of Employ
ment Of Somerset County.
our county we all have reason to be
proud Of. She ranks fifth in number
a. to territory, and first among the
counties Of the state as To the pTOduc-
ton If eminent men. Her wealth j.
untold and uudeveloped, but it remains
fact that almost her entire surface is
underlaid with coal and rich deposits
ct all other minerals.
Her grand old mountains, lofty
peaks, beautiful valleys, wide spread
ing table lands, and fertile glades, give
her superior and greater advantages
over many OF the counties of the state
Her citizens, mostly descendents from
the original Pennsylvania Dutch, they
are industrious, intelligent, thrifty,
CHRISTIAN and patriotic. No place in
the world do the people live botterand
longer, enjoy life more, and at the same
time have a higher regard 10 the duties
they owe to their God and fellow man
than in onr grand old County of Som
erset.
At the first call fer troops, when the
nation was in peril, company after
company volunteered and were march
ed 10 the front many of them having
laid down their life in defense Of their
country, while scores ofothers returned
MANNED and wounded, telling more
eloquently than words the struggles
and hardships they endured.
While we rejoice over the extent Of /
our territory, the wealth Of our county,
the peace, thrift, intelligence and con-
tentment of our citizens, and the pros
perityof our county, yet there is one |
thing alone that her people should be 1
proud Of more than any other, and that l
i the provisions she has made for the |
poor, unfortunate and insane. Fifty 1
years ago, by Act of Assembly, this |
county was constituted and formed into |
a seperate Poor District.
The thousands OF persons that have
been cared for, and the thousands Of |
dollars ofcharity She has dispensed, rs /
well n the homes she has relieved. the 4
orphan children she has cared for. the !
deaf, dumb and blind she has educated. 4
and las; Of all, the most PiJable Of ali,
those who have been bereft of their
reason, who have been maintained and
treated in hospitals, many of whom
were restored, i . monument TO our
glory more enduring than granite OF
marble, and lasting Is time.
Twice the Supreme Court has rem
dered formal decisions that Pennsylva-
mia Is Christian Commonwealth bat
important and authoritative as are such
judicial utterances, far more coayine-
ing are the splendid evidences Of Chris
tian spirit seen in Pennsylvania's no.
ble provisions for the poor and unfortu-
nate in life. And when this work Is
considered in its character. lis spirit,
il magnitude and its far-reaching re-
suits, We may well ask, as not this,
after, all, the chief, the crowning glory
of our Commonwealth" We know
that the soldier and the enthusiastic
student of military history will feel
pride in the fact, that when in the
dark days Of the Rebellion, the fearful
tide of war rolled Northward, il broke
in fury against the hills of Gettysburg,
only 20 Tec0ii in defeat and shame. He
will remind Us that on the memorable
and bloody field, with son of Pennsyl-
vania in command, when one of SOM
erset County's brave sons fell in the
taickest of the conflict, was fought one
OF the most monentous battle of history
a. the pivotal battle of that long and
terrible struggle, on whose issue being
the fate of this great republic; and in
which struggle, beyond the interests of