Kansas Orphans “Were They Really Orphans?” – This is an interesting case study about children in an orphanage. (Hint: Not all of the children that live in orphanages are orphans.)
Kansas State Library Records Collection – search for orphanages
1910-1912 Report on Public Agencies, Institutions, Associations, etc. includes Children’s Homes, (Search in this book for institution information.) Google Books Fourth Biennial Report of the Board of control of the State Charitable Institutions of Kansas for the Two Years Ending June 30, 1912, State Printing Office, Topeka, 1912
Boys Industrial School, Topeka (delinquent) (up to age 16) (M)
Child Rescue and Orphan Society of the Church of the Brethren, McPherson, (dependent, neglected, delinquent) (white) (infant to age 16) (sound mntally/physically) (legal surrender required) records
Children’s Home – Children’s Home Building Association, Kansas City, records
Children’s Home, 8th St., Kansas City – Children’s Home Building Association (1893)
Children’s Home, Kansas City, (1900) (white) (ages 2-10) (legal surrender not required) (M/F)
Children’s Orphan Home (Colored), Kansas City, records
Christian Service League, Wichita (white) (ages 1-16) (M/F) (good mental/physical condition) (crippled children accepted in emergency) (legal surrender required)
Colored Children’s Orphan Home, Washington St., Kansas City (1901) dissertation prospectus, reports
Colored Orphans’ Home of Topeka, Topeka, records
Florence Crittenton Mission (Colored), Topeka, (girls and women) records
Florence Crittenton Mission, Topeka, (white) (girls and women) (requires six month stay) records
Girls Industrial School, Topeka (delinquent) (up to age 16) (F)
Goodlander Home, Blair Avenue, Fort Scott Goodlander Home Association (1899), records
Guardian Angel’s Home, De Soto Road, Leavenworth – Sisters of Providence (1889) (colored) (M/F) (ages 3-12) (dependent, delinquent) records
Helen Gould Home, River St., Wichita (1899)
Holiness Industrial Children’s Home, Fort Scott, records
Holy Epiphany Orphanage Leavenworth,
Industrial School and Hygiene Home for the Friendless, Hillsboro (also called Salem Home and Hospital) – Mennonite Brethren (1889) (home for aged and feeble, friendless, homeless children) (white) (mentally sound, sick and crippled accepted) (ages 1-14) (children must be surrendered) (M/F) records, government report
Iola Orphans’ Home, Iola (Children’s Home Association) (1903) (helpless, dependent) (to find permanent or temporary homes) (white) (up to age 12)
Kansas Association for Friendless Women, Leavenworth,(1870) (white girls of all ages) (friendless, destitute) (shelter from temptation) (required to remain six months) records
Kansas Children’s Home Society, Topeka, (dependent, neglected, delinquent) (no regard to age, sex or color) (sound mentally, but sick, crippled, and diseased accepted) (Legal surrender required) records
Kansas Masonic Home, (home for aged, indigent Masons, their wives and widows, members of the Eastern Star and orphans and half-orphans of Masons and Eastern Star admitted between the ages of four and fourteen. White only. Children must be sound mentally and physically, but crippled children are received. Legal surrender of children is required.) About, records
Kansas State Protective Home Association (Colored), Leavenworth, (home for the old, indigent, and orphan children) (M/F) records
Leisy Orphan Aid Society, Halstead, (1884) (Mennonite) records, history, children’s records, historical,
Lutheran Children’s Home, Winfield, (dependent, neglected) (infant to age 15) (M-F) (NO regard to color) records
Mariadahl Kansas Orphan’s Home, Mariadahl, photos,
Mercy Orphan Asylum, Eighth Street, Fort Scott – Sisters of Mercy (1898)
Orphan Children’s Home (Colored) , Kansas City (colored) (orphans, half-orphans, needy, destitute) (ages 2-12) (M/F)
Orphans’ Home and Farm School of the Kansas Conference of the Lutheran Augustana Synod, Cleburne, reports, digital collection of reports, dissertation prospectus, history
Phyllis Wheatley Children’s Home, 9th St., Wichita, Sedgwick
Rebecca Odd Fellows Home, Manhattan (1906) (home for aged, indigent and their orphans) (white) (ages 2-14) (legal surrender not required)
Salem Home and Hospital (also called Industrial School and Hygienic Home for Friendless Persons Association), Hillsboro, records
Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home, Atchison – State of Kansas (1887) (later renamed the State Orphans’ Home, the Youth Center at Atchison and finally the Atchison Juvenile Correctional Facility), records 1887-1976 with 70 years of privacy sensitivity
St. John’s Orphanage, Kansas City, Wyandotte, records
St. Joseph’s Home, Abilene, records
St. Joseph’s, Grant, Dickinson, records
St. Joseph’s Orphanage, Wichita- Sisters of St Joseph (1899) (orphan, half-orphan, abandoned, destitute) (ages 1-14) (legal surrender not required) (F) records
St. Vincent’s Orphan Asylum, Leavenworth – (1863)
State Home for Feeble-minded, Winfield, Asylum for children incapable of common school instruction (under age 15)
State Orphan’s Home, Atchison (dependent, neglected, ill-treated) (ages 2-14)
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Orphan Home, Cleburne – Kansas Conference of the Lutheran Augustana Synod (1880) reports, digital collection of reports, dissertation prospectus, history
Topeka Orphans’ Home, 3rd St., Topeka (1889) (white) ((birth to age 12) (M/F) records
Wichita’s Children’s Home, East 1st Street, Wichita (1888) (white) (Infant to age 12) (legal surrender not required)
Wichita Rescue Home, Wichita, (fallen white girls, without regard to age) (destitute) (required three month stay) records