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Polk County, Wisconsin. Superintendent of the Poor. County Home records, 1876-1934.
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Polk County, Wisconsin. Superintendent of the Poor. County Home records, 1876-1934.

  • US ARC Polk Series 17
  • collection
  • 1876-1934

Records, primarily financial, of the County Home, also called the Poor Farm. There are 4 volumes of day books, 1882-1920, listing the day-to-day expenditures and receipts of the home; 13 volumes of ledgers, 1876-1934, of the home's accounts with firms and individuals it did business with as well as expenditures on its inmates; 2 volumes of ledgers listing expenditures on Outdoor Relief, 1885-1888; and one volume of minutes of the county committee on the County Home, 1919-1934.