A narrative account of the daily management and functioning of the organization, a St. Paul orphanage established shortly after the end of the Civil War. The handwritten account records the monthly board meetings, notes the number of children resident each month, lists donations received, and documents the daily issues and concerns of running of the orphanage. Volume III covers 1892 to 1898. Two additional minutes books are in the collection of the Minnesota Historical Society.
Minneapolis Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and Animals
Date Created:
1894
Description:
Annual Report including: bequest language; directors and committee members; president's report; secretary's report; treasurer's and assistant treasurer's report; report of totals of complaints investigated, substantiated, and adjudicated, including arrests, convictions, "instruments of torture taken," and referrals, placement of children into temporary homes, public, religious, or reform schools; animals euthanized or treated, with breakdown by type of animal and condition found/environment, and "reproved" animal owners; honorary members roster; contributing members roster; statement of "how to proceed" (how to notify office of cruelty), objectives of the society, promise of confidentiality, humane euthanizing arrangements; laws of Minnesota now in force: Cruelty to Children (Penal Code, Title 10, Chapter 3), laws of 1893; Cruelty to Animals (Penal Code, Title 16); obituary record; resolutions adopted 1894; advertisements.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Minneapolis Children's Home Society; Home for Children and Aged Women
Date Created:
1885
Description:
Annual Report including: officers, directors, and committees for years 1884-85 and for years 1885-86; church solicitors; secretary's report; finance committee report, cash donations, and treasurer's report; statement of building fund and subscribers; miscellaneous donations by month (including services); articles of incorporation (constitution); by-laws.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
From a bi-weekly periodical titled Vatican Library (Issue 22, Mar. 15, 1884). Contents: Plea for temperance by Father Thomas Nicholas Burke; Catholic temperance cause by Rev. Henry Athanasius Brann; Wise prelate's warning by Archbishop James Roosevelt Bayley; Doctrine of the Catholic Church about liquor by Bishop Bernard O'Reilly of Liverpool; Rules for home education; Liquor traffic and law by Bishop John Ireland; Peril of the age (on newspapers) by Bishop Joseph Thomas Duhamel of Ottawa; and Notes on Catholic reading. Library call no.: HV5072 .T9 1884
Contributing Institution:
University of St. Thomas - Archbishop Ireland Memorial Library
Annual Report including: officers, directors, and committees for years 1883-84 and for years 1884-85; church solicitors; secretary's report; finance committee report and treasurer's report; subscribers to building fund; miscellaneous donations by month (including services); articles of incorporation (constitution); by-laws.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Annual Report including: officers, directors, and committees for year ending 1883 and for year ending 1884; church solicitors; secretary's report; finance committee report, cash donations, and treasurer's report; miscellaneous donations by month (including services); articles of incorporation (constitution); by-laws.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Annual Report including: officers, directors, advisory board, and committees for year ending 1882 and for year ending 1883; president's address; finance report and list of contributors; expense account and treasurer's report; miscellaneous donations by month (including services); articles of incorporation (constitution); by-laws.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library