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History of Green County, WI
by Helen M. Bingham
Milwaukee: Burdick & Armitage Printers - 1877
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Page 51

                       PAUPERISM, DISEASE AND CRIME

 The first mention of paupers in the county commissioners' journal is this
of January, 1843: "Ordered that Alexis Van Ornum be paid $30 for nursing
and funeral expenses of Benjamin Jacobs, a poor person."  From 1849 until
'60 each town took care of its own poor.  In 1860 the supervisors elected
three superintendents of the poor -- Hiram Rust, I. M. Bennett, and Ransom
Drake -- and appropriated $2,000 to buy a county poor house and farm.  The
farm is in Mount Pleasant.  The superintendents erected a building in the
summer of 1861, and additional buildings were erected in 1870 and '73.
During the year ending Nov. 15, 1876, the average number of inmates at the
poor house was 53, and the whole number of week's support given to inmates
was 1,996.  The average cost to the county of each week's maintenance was
$1.46.  The poor commissioners also expended about $1,500 for the poor
living in several towns.  The principal buildings on the poor farm were
destroyed by fire on the last day of May, 1877, but new buildings will be
erected as soon as possible.

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