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The caption below reads: Mahoning
County Infirmary, Canfield, Ohio.
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A picture of some equipment (OUCH!) used by
the
man who (for over 30 years!) was Physician for the
Mahoning County Infirmary
has been contributed by
Rose Melnick Medical Museum, Youngstown State University
to the wonderful Ohio
Memory project
(an on online scrapbook of Ohio history) 
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NOTE:
Place this term in the title section of their search
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Lewis D. Coy,
M.D. Amputating Kit
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| RECORDS:
OHS
Microfilm
Note: For every county in Ohio it would be a good idea to check
the statewide resources listed below.
PHL
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| We have found so many infirmary/poorhouse records for Ohio that
we have created a special page for the references -- which will be found in a table
alphabetized by county. |
(WPA) INVENTORIES OF THE COUNTY ARCHIVES OF OHIO
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EXCERPTS RELATED TO POORHOUSE (INFIRMARY) HOLDINGS
During the 1930's and 1940's
the Work Projects Administration (WPA) began the process of inventorying
County Archives of Ohio. Those which inventoried infirmary records
have been transcribed and links are here posted on a table. |
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| CEMETERIES:
"I live in
Mahoning County Ohio in Canfield in a new subdivision on the
land that was once the Mahoning County Infirmary. When I was
younger it stood abandoned and we knew it as "the old folks
home". The building is long gone but the cemetery is a few
hundred feet from my house in what looks to be just another lot
awaiting a new house. It is a wooded lot, same as the rest were
around here but there are several grave markers (looks like a
tube was filled with cement and a number was pressed into the
top) hidden within the lot. I became interested in all of this
once I saw the markers for myself as I think very few if any
around here knew of a cemetery. The subdivision was temporarily
halted a few years ago when the graves were discovered but it
looks like progress will continue until there is a house on
every lot except for one."
Robert Mangapora
r.mangapora@bascomponents.com
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