Biographical review; this volume contains biographical sketches of Livingston and Wyoming counties, New York .. . d Mrs. Stone have one daughter, TheoE. Lewis Stone, who is a member of the classof 1896 at Houghton Seminary, Clinton,Oneida County, , where she is a diligentstudent. Mr. Stone has held the ofifice of Justice ofthe Peace for fourteen years, and has beenkeeper of the Wyoming County Poor Housesince 1885. This institution is located one-half mile from the village of Varysburg,, on a farm containing two hundred andfifty-one acres of land, a great part of whichis best adapted to
Biographical review; this volume contains biographical sketches of Livingston and Wyoming counties, New York .. . d Mrs. Stone have one daughter, TheoE. Lewis Stone, who is a member of the classof 1896 at Houghton Seminary, Clinton,Oneida County, , where she is a diligentstudent. Mr. Stone has held the ofifice of Justice ofthe Peace for fourteen years, and has beenkeeper of the Wyoming County Poor Housesince 1885. This institution is located one-half mile from the village of Varysburg,, on a farm containing two hundred andfifty-one acres of land, a great part of whichis best adapted to grazing. About one hun-dred acres of it, however, are very productive;and here are raised all the necessary vegeta-bles, potatoes, fruit, wheat, buttei, beef, andpork consumed on the place. There are sixtyinmates in the institution, that are comfort-ably and kindly cared for; and through theliberal appropriations made by various boardsof supervisors of the county, the Board ofSuperintendents of the Poor and the Keeperhave caused the buildings to be placed in suchcondition that there is an atmosphere of home. Z. FONTAINE. BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 55 life given to the place, vvhicli is very elevat-ing to the unfortunate men and women domi-ciled within its walls. The main iniilding istwo stories high, measures forty by forty-fourfeet, with kitchen, dining-room, and laundryextending back for a distance of two hundredfeet, while the mens building, connected bya covered corridor on the east, measures thirtyby sixty feet, and the womens building, con-nected by a covered corridor on the west,measures thirty by sixty. In the rear is thatpart of the establishment which is devoted tothe feeble-minded.
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