New Developments
The construction of the buildings for the Junior Order Orphanage was started at Lexington just prior to the end of the last biennium. A new high school building has just been completed at the Presbyterian Orphans' Home. A new administration building and two cottages at Thompson Orphanage, Charlotte, were begun during this period and a new building to be used for an administration building and a dormitory for boys was completed at the Pythian Orphanage at Clayton. The Eastern Carolina Training School for Delinquent Boys was opened during the last year. A Training School for Delinquent Negro Girls has also been opened at Efland.
1. Orphanages
Alexander Home, Charlotte, N.C.
Mrs. Pannie Sharpe, Superintendent. Owned and controlled by Presbyterian churches of Charlotte. Receives dependent children from three to twelve years of age.
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Catholic Orphanage, Nazareth
Rev. George Woods, Superintendent. Owned and controlled by the Catholic Church. Receives dependent children from two to thirteen years of age.
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Christian Orphanage, Elon College
Rev. Chas. D. Johnston, Superintendent. Owned and controlled by the Southern Convention of the Christian Church. Receives dependent children from three to thirteen years of age.
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Rev. L. B. Compton, Superintendent. Owned and controlled by a board of directors. Inter-denominational. Receives dependent children from infancy to ten years of age.
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Falcon Orphanage, Falcon
J. A. Culbreth, Superintendent. Owned and controlled by the Falcon Camp Meeting Association of the Pentecostal Church. Receives dependent children from five to thirteen years of age.
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Freewill Baptist Orphans' Home, Middlesex
C. G. Pope, Superintendent. Owned and controlled by Freewill Baptists. Receives dependent children from three to twelve years of age.
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Grandfather Orphans' Home, Banner Elk
J. W. Holcombe, Superintendent. Owned and controlled by Southern Presbyterian Church. Receives dependent children from three to ten years of age.
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I. O. O. F. Home, Goldsboro
Charles Warren, Superintendent. Owned and controlled by Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Receives dependent children from four to twelve years of age.
-=- Kennedy Home, Kinston
R. H. Hough, Superintendent. Located seven miles west of Kinston on Route No. 10. Branch of Thomasville Baptist Orphanage.
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Junior Order Orphanage.
(Now under construction.)
-=- Maxwell Training School, Franklin
J. E. Lancaster, Superintendent. Owned and controlled by the Home Mission Committee of the Asheville Presbytery. Receives dependent boys from five to fourteen years of age. This is also a boarding school.
-=- Memorial Industrial School, Winston-Salem
Rev. J. W. Poindexter, Superintendent. Controlled by a board of trustees and a member of the Winston-Salem Community Chest. Receives dependent Negro children from three to twelve years of age.
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Methodist Children's Home, Winston-Salem
Rev. Charles Wood, Superintendent. Owned and controlled by the Western North Carolina Conference of the Methodist Church. Receives dependent children from three to thirteen years of age.
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Methodist Protestant Children's Home, High Point
Rev. E. G. Lowdermilk, Superintendent. Owned and controlled by the Methodist Protestant Church. Receives dependent children from four to twelve years of age.
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Methodist Orphanage, Raleigh
Rev. A. S. Barnes, Superintendent. Owned and controlled by the North Carolina Conference of the Methodist Church. Receives dependent children from five to twelve years of age.
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Mountain Orphanage, Black Mountain
Carl Brindley, Superintendent. Owned and controlled by the Home Mission Committee of the Asheville Presbytery. Receives dependent children from four to fourteen years of age.
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Nazareth Orphans' Home, Rockwell
Rev. W. H. McNairy, Superintendent. Owned and controlled by the Reformed Church of North Carolina. Receives dependent children from five to sixteen years of age.
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Oxford Orphanage, Oxford
E. L. Brown, Superintendent. Owned and controlled by the Grand Lodge of Masons of North Carolina. Receives dependent children from one to twelve years of age.
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Oxford Colored Orphanage, Oxford
H. P. Cheatham, Superintendent. Owned and controlled by a board of trustees, three of whom are appointed by the Governor. Receives dependent children from three to fourteen years of age.
Presbyterian Orphans' Home, Barium Springs
T. C, Joseph B. Johnston, Superintendent. Owned and controlled by the Presbyterian Church. Receives dependent children from two to twelve years of age. Miss Cornelia Steele has recently been employed as a field agent.
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R. D. Jenkins, Superintendent. Owned and controlled by the Knights of Pythias. Receives dependent children from five to sixteen years of age.
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St. Ann's Orphanage, Belmont
Sister M. Bride, Superintendent. Controlled by Sisters of Mercy, Convent of the Sacred Heart.
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Thomasville Baptist Orphanage, Thomasville
Rev. M. L. Kesler, Superintendent. Owned and controlled by the Baptist State Convention. Receives dependent children from two to twelve years of age. Miss Hattie Edwards is Field Agent and Director of Mothers' Aid.
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Thompson Orphanage, Charlotte
Rev. W. H. Wheeler, Superintendent. Owned and controlled by the Episcopal Church. Receives dependent children from one to twelve years of age.
2. Homes for Temporary Care
Buncombe County Children's Home, Asheville
Miss Emma Donoho, Superintendent. Owned and controlled by Buncombe County. Receives dependent children from one to fourteen years of age.
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Juvenile Relief Home, Winston-Salem
Mrs. George Norneet, Superintendent. Owned and controlled by the Juvenile Relief Association of Winston-Salem. Receives dependent and neglected children.
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The Wright Refuge, Durham
Miss Alice M. Pirie, Superintendent. Owned and controlled by a board of trustees representing the various civic and official organizations of the city and county. Dependent and neglected children are received from Durham and Durham County for temporary care. Wright Refuge also does childplacing.
Reports for the nine months ending June 30, 1925, and ending June 30, 1926, respectively, show that 114 children were received. Of the 46 children received from October 1, 1924, to June 30, 1925, 26 came from homes where the mothers were receiving hospital care, 26 children from eleven families were cared for until conditions could be readjusted in the homes, and 5 children were received for placement.
Of the 68 children received from June 30, 1925, to June 30, 1926, 26 came from homes where the father had deserted, 18 came from homes where the father was dead, 10 were taken from homes by order of the Juvenile Court, 9 came from homes where the mother was dead, 3 came from homes where both parents were dead, 1 from a home where the mother was ill and 1 from a home where the father was ill.
The homes of 22 of these children became self-supporting, and the children were returned, 3 were sent to orphanages, 1 to a boarding school, 3 were placed with relatives and 3 were placed in foster homes.
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Cumberland County Preventorium
The Cumberland County Preventorium, an institution operated by the Cumberland County Tuberculosis Association for the care and treatment of undernourished and pre-tubercular children. The institution was opened May 1, 1925. The State Board of Charities and Public Welfare was asked to approve the project. An investigation was made and a license approving the preventorium was issued.
From March 17th to June 30th, 31 cases, 22 boys and 9 girls, ranging in ages from 2 to 16, were handled through the home. Of these cases 20 were white and 11 were colored; 21 cases were delinquent and 10 were dependent or neglected. The average length of time spent in the home was twenty-four and a fraction of a day per child.
Of the 31 cases, 10 were placed in homes, 11 were returned to parents, 2 were returned to relatives, 3 were placed in institutions, 1 ran away, and 4 remained in the Detention Home.
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3. State Institutions
Eastern Carolina Training School.
This institution, which received its first inmate on January. 18, 1926, was established by an Act of the 1923 General Assembly. The bill as passed provided for an appropriation of $25,000 for building purposes and an annual maintenance appropriation of $5,000. The school is located on Route No. 40 about four miles north of Rocky Mount.
Mr. S. E. Leonard, Superintendent, has as his assistant Mr. Guy B. Alexander who was formerly at Jackson Training School.
Since the school opened up to June 30, 1926, 12 boys had been received. There is only one building at present. It was planned to limit the number of inmates to thirty for the first year.
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Stonewall Jackson Manual Training and Industrial School, Concord
Charles E. Boger, Superintendent. Receives delinquent white boys under sixteen years of age, by court commitment. Boys cannot be sentenced to the school for a definite length of time. When legally committed, a boy remains a charge of the institution during his minority or until such time as he shall be discharged. Boys under sixteen sentenced to State Prison or county prison camps may be transferred by the Governor to this school.
Thirteen cottages are now open at the school. During the period from June 30, 1924, to June 30, 1926, the school received 312 boys, and of this number 50 have been paroled. Of the total number handled during the period 140 have been paroled.
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Samarcand Manor, State Home and Industrial School for Girls, Samarcand
Miss Agnes B. MacWaughton, Superintendent.
Receives delinquent white girls by court commitment or on voluntary request. Commitments shall not be made for any specified length of time. When legally committed, a girl remains a charge of the institution during her minority or until such time as she shall be discharged. It is the policy of Samarcand to give preference to young girls.
During the last biennial period 133 girls have been received. Of this number 6 have been paroled and 4 have been transferred to Caswell Training School. Of the total number handled during the period 93 girls have been paroled.
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Morrison Training School for Delinquent Negro Boys, Hoffman
Rev. L. L. Boyd, Superintendent.
Receives delinquent Negro boys under sixteen years of age, by court commitment. Boys cannot be sentenced or committed to the school for any specified length of time. When legally committed, a boy remains a charge of the institution during his minority or until such time as he shall be discharged.
Negro boys under sixteen years of age who have been sentenced to the State Prison or county prison camps may be transferred to the institution by the Governor.
During the last two-year period, 74 boys have been received and of this number 18 have already been paroled. Of the total number handled during the period, 24 boys were paroled.
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Caswell Training School, Kinston
W. H. Dixon, M.D., Superintendent.
Receives feeble-minded boys and girls and feeble-minded adults in certain cases. Before applications for admission are submitted they must be approved by the local welfare officer and either the judge of the juvenile court or the clerk of the court of the county wherein the applicant resides.
During the last biennial period 18 inmates have been received and of the total number handled during the period 38 have been paroled. The institution has been crowded for some time.
Of the 406 inmates, according to a card file in this office, in the institution June 30, 1926, there were 142 over twenty years of age. Of the 406, forty-five had been transferred from other institutions.
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4. Industrial Homes
North Carolina Home for Colored Girls, Efland, N. C, Mrs. C. M. Brooks, Superintendent.
Controlled by the State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs.
Receives delinquent Negro girls under sixteen years of age, by court commitment. The capacity of the institution is only ten.
From May 1, 1925, to June 30, 1926, the preventorium cared for 77 children. Of this number 59 were dismissed prior to June 30, 1926, leaving 18 in the institution.
The operating cost for this period of time was $4,845.01.
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Anna Lewis Home, Pasquotank County Detention Home, Elizabeth City
Rev. A. H. Outlaw, Superintendent of Public Welfare. During the year ending June 30, 1926, the home cared for 29 children, ranging in ages from one to sixteen. Of this number, 6 were delinquent and 23 were dependent and neglected.
Disbursements at the home for the year amounted to $2,465.22.
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Wake County Detention Home.
The Wake County Detention Home was opened March 15, 1926, through the efforts of the Wake County Welfare Department.
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Mecklenburg Industrial Home, Charlotte
Miss Gertrude M. Clark, Superintendent.
During the period December 1, 1924, to June 30, 1926, 126 girls have been handled in the home. From December 1, 1925, to June 30, 1926, 38 of these girls were received. Of the 126 girls, 89 have been released. Of the 89, eighty were returned to their homes on parole, positions and boarding places were secured for 4, 1 was sent to jail as incorrigible, 1 was sent to Samarcand Manor, 1 was sent to the hospital for insane, and 2 were married.
Two drug addicts, 35 cases of gonorrhea, 17 cases of syphilis and of epilepsy were reported.
Pages 1-24 of the Biennial Report of the State Board of Charities and Public Welfare to the General Assembly of North Carolina, published in 1926
The 150-page report is available online through the Internet Archive, with the section on Child-Caring Institutions beginning here:
archive.org/details/biennialreportof1926nort/page/24/mode/2up
