page_title: Wisconsin Industrial School for Girls
section_title: Establishment
hierarchical_section_title: Wisconsin Industrial School for Girls / History / Establishment
caption_attribution_description: English: Identifier: wisconsinblueboo00wisc (find matches) Title: The Wisconsin blue book Year: 1893 (1890s) Authors: Wisconsin. Office of the Secretary of State. Legislative manual of the State of Wisconsin Wisconsin. Bureau of Labor and Industrial Statistics. Blue book of the State of Wisconsin Industrial Commission of Wisconsin Wisconsin. State Printing Board Wisconsin. Legislature. Legislative Reference Library Wisconsin. Legislature. Legislative Reference Bureau Wisconsin. Blue book of the State of Wisconsin Subjects:Wisconsin Industrial School for Boys, Waukesha, Wisconsin (1893) Publisher: Madison Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: rce Sparta, Monroe. Roxbury, Dane Ashlord, Fond du Lac Wauwautosa, Milwaukee Sextonville, Richland Briggsville, Marquette Moundville, Marquette Green Lake, Green Lake Sheboygan Falls, Sheboygan Berlin City, Waushara Beloit, Rock Lone Rock, Richland Fond du Lac, Fond du Lac.Prairie du Chien, Crawford.. Mineral Point, Iowa Darien, Walworth Lisbon, Waukesha , Sumner. Trempealeau Monticello, Green , 1874.1872.1885.1859.1857.1852.1849.1857.1850.1848.1866.1868.1865.1862.1863. 1819,52,57. 1849. 1868. 1860. 1860. 1870, 71. 1859. 1878. 1883. 1857, b. 1877. 1853, 54. 1882, 83.1869.1865.1881.1889, 91.1887.1882.1873. 1855, 56, 57, 62, 64,1850. 1885, 87, b.1876. 1853, b.1863. 1881, 83, 91. 1857. 1855, b. 187 6. It61. 1857. 1854. 1887. 1883, 1891. 1885. 1882. 1879. 1879. 1889. 1883, 85.1862, 63.1856.1859.1802.1875.1854. 1869, 78, 79. 1854, 57. 1802, 65, 67, b. 1858. 1856. 1849, 01. 1866. 1857. 1 Successfully Contested snat of Amos S. Gray.I Se&lt;U contested by Ibauc McCann. b See list of Senators, Text Appearing After Image: MEMBERS OF LEGISLATURES. MEMBERS OF ASSEMBLY—Continued. Names. Thompson, George P Thompson, Jared, Jr hompson, Monroe hompson, Samuel hompson, Thornton hompson, William hompson, Alexander M... hoinpson, Ambrose borne, Gerret T Thornton, Oliver W hornton, Thomas .horp, Adelbert D horp, Hermon S iehenor, Vernon , .ilton, Hezekiah C&#160;?iernay, John H inker, James isch, Charles ish, William toay, John obey, John William obin, John obin, Thomas oland, Patrick, toll, John C tollefson, Gunnuf tompkins, William F topliff, Alfred torbart, William M torgerson, Ole tormey, James totten, Henry toutaey, Michael J tousley, Wilber H tower, Thomas W townsend, A. A townsend, Elijah C townsend, Lucius B ... . townsend, Thomas J racy, Daniel .racy, John .rain, .lames G .rask, George W&#160;?reat, C. Mortimer&#160;?regaskis, Richard Dreleven, Daniel D&#160;?ripp, J. Stephen S Mpp, Roswell H Mpp, William H&#160;?row, Alvin S ..&#160;?roy, Cyrus Cruel 1, David fruesdell, Gideon rrumbull, John D rrumer, Marcus rurk, Peter Ciuit-y, Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: Wisconsin Industrial School for Girls was a 19th-century American industrial school in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The Wisconsin Industrial School for Girls was the only secular reformatory institution in the state where delinquent and neglected girls could make a home.
  In 1875, an act was passed providing for the establishment of industrial schools for criminal, vagrant, and deserted children. The children would be committed by the courts. Plans were made for the "Milwaukee Industrial School". The Legislature of 1878 authorised $15,000 for the erection of a school building and the city supplied an 8 acres site worth $16,000 at 465 Lake Drive overlooking the Bay of Milwaukee. The school was named the Milwaukee Industrial School; but as it received inmates from every part of the state the name was changed to the Wisconsin Industrial School for Girls. Boys under the age of ten years, only, were admitted.
  The school's purpose was the prevention of crime and pauperism of unfortunate girls; and the restoration of those who had fallen into bad habits, or inherited vicious tendencies. The system of discipline and education was adapted to the condition and needs of the pupils.
context_section_description: The necessity of establishing an industrial school, which should have for its aim and object the reformation of vagrant children, and children who were permitted to wander in the streets as beggars, and those whose condition would naturally lead to vice and crime, had been a matter of much thought to the ladies of the city of Milwaukee for many months, and various plans had been proposed and discussed for the accomplishment of that object when the winter of 1874 set in. The unusual severity of that winter and the depression of business whereby so many men and women were thrown out of employment, had the effect to increase largely the number of vagrant children in the streets of Milwaukee, and proved to be the occasion for adopting active and decisive measures. 
  In February, 1875, a meeting of the women of Milwaukee was called to discuss the feasibility of establishing an industrial school similar to others in operation in the U.S. and other countries. An organization was created, but was soon found to be of little practical benefit, owing to the want of cooperative legislative action on the subject. To meet this need, a bill was introduced into the legislature of the state of Wisconsin, entitled "An act authorizing Industrial Schools," which passed both houses, was duly approved by the governor, and became a law on April 5, 1875.
  The organization which had instituted this work immediately took steps to organize in pursuance of the law, and became a corporation in April of the same year. A building and lot were rented at once, in a central part of the city, and preparations were made to enable the corporation to carry out the purpose of the law. Scarcely, however, had it received into its care some of the children for whose reformation and protection the law was intended, when certain parties not in sympathy with the movement claimed that the law was unconstitutional, and took steps to test its validity.
  The question of the validity of the law arose in this way: Certain children were taken from the poor house of Milwaukee County, by virtue of the law and the order of the court, and were placed in the custody and under the control of the Industrial School. A bill was presented to the board of supervisors of Milwaukee County for payment of the expenses of caring for such children. The board of supervisors declined to pay the bill, on the ground that the law was unconstitutional. Thereupon an application was made by the corporation for a writ of mandamus against the board of supervisors, to compel the payment of the bill as rendered. The counsel of the corporation think there is no doubt of the validity of the law, and that the board of supervisors will be ordered by the court to pay the bill. Should that feature of the law, however, which requires the board of supervisors to pay the expenses of children taken from the poor house, be declared invalid, it will not, as the corporation is advised, impair or affect other provisions of the law.
  The Milwaukee Industrial School was the only reformatory institution for girls in the state. It looked not only to the people of Milwaukee, but to the state at large, for the necessary means to carry out successfully the purpose of its organization. An Industrial School for Boys was already established in the state, in which boys 10 years old and upwards were received.
  There was a steady increase in the number of resident inmates of the Milwaukee Industrial School, and the demand for accommodation already began to tax the capabilities of the building. The corporation was largely dependent upon voluntary contributions, and was in need of state aid. Fifty-nine children were received into the institution during the first 10 months of its existence.
  In 1876, the cash receipts have amounted to three thousand, five hundred and thirty-seven dollars, and the disbursements have been three thousand and sixty-two dollars.
caption: Industrial school for boys in Waukesha, picture published 1893
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