Not Forgotten

This site is to share public records regarding patients and employees of the Traverse City Asylum, State Hospital for the Insane, Northern Michigan Asylum, Traverse City Regional Psychiatric Hospital.
There is so little information available regarding patients, often known as inmates, that I felt it was important to post, make public, the little information available, as a genealogist, researcher and briefly, an "inmate" shortly before it closed.
My homage to those who suffered.

Sunday, June 21, 2015

Occupations of Patients

I've found online death records for 100-150 roughly, patients who died at the asylum.
The vast majority of men were farmers and laborers. The unusal occupations I have found for males: musician, physician, 2 miners from the upper peninsula, boiler maker, goldsmith, blacksmith, cooper, carpenter and lumberman.
For women, it is quite basic, housewife, farmers wife, domestic and housekeeper. I've found 2 single women who were school teachers. One died of tb, the other of cancer.

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