20th century history of Springfield, and Clark County, Ohio, and representative citizens . COUNTY OFFICERS BUILDING. CITY BUILDING. SPRINGFIF:lD CLARK COUNTY INFIRMARY AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS. 151 When the present buildings become un-fit for infirmary purposes, either by rea-son of their age or from insufBciency ofroom, it is likely that some other placewill be selected. From the record we findthat John Boss, of Bethel Township, wasthe first person to be admitted, that Den-nis Jones was the first superintendent,and that Francis Elliott was appointed tosucceed him in 1842. The records are n
20th century history of Springfield, and Clark County, Ohio, and representative citizens . COUNTY OFFICERS BUILDING. CITY BUILDING. SPRINGFIF:lD CLARK COUNTY INFIRMARY AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS. 151 When the present buildings become un-fit for infirmary purposes, either by rea-son of their age or from insufBciency ofroom, it is likely that some other placewill be selected. From the record we findthat John Boss, of Bethel Township, wasthe first person to be admitted, that Den-nis Jones was the first superintendent,and that Francis Elliott was appointed tosucceed him in 1842. The records are notcomplete, but in 1861 Christopher La-bourn was re-appointed 1863 W. H. Ford was superintendentand he served until 1876. Then IsaacCurl was elected to that position and hein turn was superseded in 1878 by JamesFleming, and in 1892 William H. Hugheswas elected to that position and serveduntil 1902, when A. 0. Huffman was chos-en ; he was succeeded in 1907 by the pres-ent superintendent, Edgar W. Albin. Childeens Home. For some time philanthropists had dis-cussed the problem as to the manner in
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