Ashtabula County District Library System
Archives Platt R. Spencer Special Collections
Geneva Public Library 860 Sherman St., Geneva OH 44041-9101
In the archival collections of the Ashtabula County District Library System
there is housed an old hotel register. It is for the Fisk House that was on
Main Street in Ashtabula. This register covers 1861 through April 2, 1866,
when the hotel closed. In 1862, E.G. Gleason was proprietor. Under the date
of January 8, 1862, we find the following registration:
"O.C. Tracy, Agent of the Children's Aid Society N.Y. with 23 children from
the Society as follows:
EARL, JOHN WM. 10y SEIFERT, KATE L. 11y
DEANE, FRANK 12y McNETTE, ALBERT G. 9y
McNETTE, CAROLINE A. 7y McNETTE, LUCY 5y
CARPENTER, SYLVESTER 8 1/2y CARPENTER, ALFRED 5 1/2y
CANAFAUD(?), I.I. 11y FERGUSON, THOMAS 11y
FORTMAN, WILLIAM 11y HAYS, JOHN 8y
HAYS, JOSEPH 10y HUGHES, GEORGE 10y
LALLY, MICHAEL D. 11y LALLY, ROBERT I. 9y
McCULLOUGH, JAMES 14y O'CONNOR, JEREMIAH 11y
O'CONNOR, MICHAEL 10y O'CONNOR, JOHN 5y
WALL, LANSING 10y REDDY, MARY 4y
SLOAN, ELIZABETH 6y
T.E. FIELD. PROPITER (sic) of this show. H.(?) T.H.
(Note: after the name Alfred Carpenter is the notation "Cleveland." The "f"
in the name Canafaud could be P or the double S.)
This is the complete list and no other information is available. Since the
Register is fragile, it cannot be xeroxed. There is no indication that any
of the children from this orphan train were placed here. The registration
must be taken at face value, as a stop over at the hotel, either for food
or for overnight lodging. The hotel also had a dining room, and the register
may have been used as a guest register. No other orphan train children are
listed in the hotel register.
* The information on this page was first published in the OGS Report,
V 30, Iss 2, 1990, and is reprinted here with permission from Administrator, William Tokarczyk, of the Ashtabula County District Libary System. "OGS" is the
Ohio Genealogical Society.
This list was donated by Patricia Silk and Janice Waugh (direct descendants of Michael D. Lally, listed) to The Orphans' Home Website August 2001