Utah Juvenile Court and Probation Commission

This series is a single ledger containing year-by-year listings of children who were residents of the Orphan's Home in Salt Lake City. The Home was a private endeavor run by the Orphan's Home and Day Nursery Association and was located at 1200 East 1300 South during the time period this record was compiled. The home took in orphans as well as children whose parents were unable to provide adequate support, especially the children of single, divorced, widowed, or abandoned mothers. This record was created to track the children under the care of the Orphan's Home. In addition to the name of each child, the record book includes columns for noting father's name, mother's name, color, date of birth, place of birth, date of admission, date of discharge, parent's address, the name of the person or authority who had placed the child in the home, a monthly accounting of the cost of maintenance for the child, and miscellaneous remarks. In some cases the record may include information about suchthings as when a child took employment somewhere or was hospitalized. While this record was created by a private institution, it apparently came into the possession of the Juvenile Court and Probation Commission at some point in time. The Juvenile Court system would placed many children in the Home and certainly been concerned with operation of the home, but the specific reason why the Commission acquired this record is not known.

This series is a single ledger containing year-by-year listings of children who were residents of the Orphan's Home in Salt Lake City. The Home was a private endeavor run by the Orphan's Home and Day Nursery Association and was located at 1200 East 1300 South during the time period this record was compiled. The home took in orphans as well as children whose parents were unable to provide adequate support, especially the children of single, divorced, widowed, or abandoned mothers.

This record was created to track the children under the care of the Orphan's Home. In addition to the name of each child, the record book includes columns for noting father's name, mother's name, color, date of birth, place of birth, date of admission, date of discharge, parent's address, the name of the person or authority who had placed the child in the home, a monthly accounting of the cost of maintenance for the child, and miscellaneous remarks. In some cases the record may include information about such things as when a child took employment or was hospitalized.

While this record was created by a private institution, it apparently came into the possession of the Juvenile Court and Probation Commission at some point in time. The Juvenile Court system placed many children in the Home and would certainly have been concerned with operation of the home, but the specific reason why the Commission acquired this record is not known.