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From: "Gail Steckel" <>
Subject: Re: Robert Edward Long - Chester "institutions"
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 19:28:51 -0400


As perhaps a measure of hope of finding such old records, let me relate an
experience I had in searching for the great-great grandfather of my sons
(their father and I are divorced). The man's name was very common - Charles
Moore. I knew he was born in 1868 and had lived in an orphanage in the
Germantown, Phila. area. The orphanage had, of course, long since shut
down. Through months of on and off again searching on the Internet I found
a reference to a Lutheran Children's Home in Germantown. More searching
here and there found a reference that it was now a school. So I wrote to
the school and, voila! they indeed had the records from the orphanage and
kindly looked up the information I needed. So don't give up to hastily!
-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Nicholson <>
To: <>
Date: Monday, October 09, 2000 9:19 AM
Subject: Re: Robert Edward Long - Chester "institutions"


>Elwyn's phone number is 610-891-2000 (I'm sitting here at work right now!).
>
>Not sure how much luck you'll have tracing someone from 1910 - not many
>records still exist from the past regarding either "residents" or
>employees. Also, Elwyn has never been in Chester County - it's just outside
>of Media, in Delaware County.
>
>Rick
>
>At 05:36 AM 10/9/00, Gail Steckel wrote:
>>Area codes did change some time ago - not sure if Elwyn was affected. If
>>the 215 area code doesn't work, then it is now 610.
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Gene Kerlin <>
>>To: <>
>>Date: Sunday, October 08, 2000 11:14 PM
>>Subject: Re: Robert Edward Long - Chester "institutions"
>>
>>
>> >Try Pennsylvania Training School (mental retardation). I believe it is
>> >now Elwyn Institute, Elwyn PA 19063 Telephone 215.358.6400. Elwyn is in
>> >Chester County, or very nearby. The area telephone code may have
changed
>> >since 1985 when I last had contact. This institution has been in
>> >existence since 1876.
>> >
>> >Gene Kerlin
>> >-------------
>> >On 10/6/00 you wrote:
>> >
>> >>Hi Sandra,
>> >>
>> >>Thanks for the URL for the PA Miracode!
>> >>
>> >>I found the following family members, all born in PA:
>> >>
>> >>Chester
>> >>0070 Robert E. Long, Jr. INMA W;W 16 0241 HOH-Zach T. Whitson
>> >>
>> >>0082 R. Edward Long HOH W 49 0217
>> >>Wife Elizabeth B(ush) 37
>> >>Daughter Mary B 13
>> >>Daughter Laura A 10
>> >>Daughter Sarah C 06
>> >>Daughter Frances M NR (any clue what NR really means??)
>> >>
>> >>Chester, West Chester
>> >>0073 Milton Jackson HOH W 0145
>> >>Wife Jennie 49
>> >>BIL David 42
>> >>Boarders
>> >>Jane Burnett W;W 72
>> >>Sara Law W;W 48
>> >>Maud Long W;W 26
>> >>Prachella Maris W;W 25
>> >>
>> >>R(obert) Edward Long was my husband's g/grandfather. Elizabeth Bush
was
>> >>Edward's second wife. Maude Newlin Long, oldest child of R. Edward and
>> >>Sarah Newlin Long [wife #1] was my husband's grandmother.
>> >>
>> >>Maude became a nurse after her mother's death. Does anyone know what
>> >>hospital(s) in Chester County might have existed in Chester County in
the
>> >>early 1900s?
>> >>
>> >>Robert E. Long, Jr. was the last child of Edward and Sarah. Family
story
>> >>has it that "something went wrong" during his birth that caused him to
be
>> >>institutionalized and caused his mother's death [not an immediate
death,
>> >>but relatively soon]. Unfortunately, the Miracode doesn't say what
>> >>institution Zach T. Whitson headed, but gives 200+ "Inmates".
>> >>
>> >>Does anyone have any idea what sort of Mental Institution [or other
type
>>of
>> >>"institution"] existed in Chester County in 1910?
>> >>
>> >>TIA,
>> >>grace
>
>
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