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Title	Clinton Township Poor Records
Subject	Ohio Government Daily Life Public welfare Assistance
Place	Tiffin (Ohio) Seneca County (Ohio)
Description	These records, kept by the trustees of Clinton Township in Seneca County, contain the names of women and men who received financial assistance from the township between 1897 and 1903. Each entry lists the name of the recipient, sex, age, color, birthplace, length of residency, reasons for relief, marital status, number of children, and relief history. The entry also includes the date, amount of money received, and how it was to be used. Money was allotted for physician's fees, food, clothing, food, funeral expenses, and "miscellaneous." The records are in two volumes measuring 9" x 14" (22.86 x 35.56 cm). They are approximately 280 pages each. Selections from both volumes are included here. The first legislation regarding public support of the poor and disabled in the Northwest Territory was written in 1790. It provided for a decentralized system in which townships appointed overseers for one-year terms. Overseers reported "vagrants" and people who were in poverty to the justice of the peace for relief. Based on English law, the Ohio Constitution adopted similar legislation in 1803. The Ohio General Assembly passed legislation allowing county commissioners to construct poorhouses for the care of paupers in 1816. By the middle of the century, most counties had adopted a system of sending the poor to the county home for relief. Provisions were made, however, for cases of partial or temporary relief if a family member were ill, temporarily unemployed, or were working but not making enough to survive. Townships continued to provide welfare services into the twentieth century.
Creator	Clinton Township Trustees
Date of Original	1897 - 1903
Source	Unpublished material (archives/manuscripts)
Submitting Institution	Tiffin-Seneca Public Library
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html
Type	Text
Format	manuscripts

Title	Om375_911403_001
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html; Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	Om375_911403_001.tif
Image Height	1767
Image Width	2103
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