Websuperintendents of the Pennsylvania Training School for Feeble-Minded Children at Elwyn, were responsible for many of the sterilization proposals: “Many of the institutional, medical and social authorities of Pennsylvania [worked] for the enactment of a satisfactory eugenical sterilization law” (Laughlin, p. 40). Groups targeted and victimized http://www.delawarecountyhistory.com/middletowntownship/ElwynTrainingSchoolCemetery_000.htm

List of institutions providing Special Education facilities

Web1965 when it merged with the Elwyn School in Elwyn, PA. The institution, while non-sectarian, was Christian-based in philosophy and teaching. For at least the first one hundred years, admission was restricted to “destitute fatherless children of married parents.” Boys were not admitted over the age of seven and were housed until the age WebThe following is a list of Surnames from the Elwyn Training School Graveyad, obtained from a 1936 WPA graveyard study. I believe I will be able to obtain the given names of the individuals, but I can't guarentee that yet. Aby Adams Agnew Albertson Albright Applebaum Appler Armstrong Atherton Badders Bainbridge Baldwin Barnes Barringer Bennett groupon italy trips

Eugenics - Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia

WebElwyn Training School, Media, Pennsylvania, founded 1852 by Alfred L. Elwyn Pennhurst State School, Pennsylvania Grafton State School, Now Life Skills and Transition Center, North Dakota School for the Feeble-Minded and Colony for Epileptics, Faribault, Minnesota This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (August 2008) WebFounded in 1852 Elwyn is a premier, internationally recognized human services nonprofit organization. We are the provider of choice for children and adults with intellectual and … http://www.us-census.org/states/pennsylvania/teams/Delaware1930.htm groupon jasper alberta