Protestant Home for Incurables

Date: 1833 to about 1980
Location: Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States
Surnames/tags: Pennsylvania Protestant

Protestant Home for Incurables

Established by Jane Holmes (1805-1885), in 1833, in the Holmes family converted country home in Pittsburgh’s Lawrenceville neighborhood.^[1][2][3][4]

5500 Butler Street Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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Sources

1. ↑ Guide to the Jane Holmes Residence and Gardens Records 1881-2007 Historic Pittsburgh (https://historicpittsburgh.org/ : accessed 9 May 2021
2. ↑ "Another Home" Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) 10 Dec 1883, Mon Page 2 (https://www.newspapers.com/ : accessed 20 Apr 2021)
3. ↑ "Holmes House Reveres Bicentenniel Party" Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) 24 Sep 1975, Wed Page 13 (https://www.newspapers.com/ : accessed 20 Apr 2021)
4. ↑ "Remembering Janes" & "2 women changed face of Pittsburgh" Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) 09 Apr 2008, Wed Pages 23 and 24 (https://www.newspapers.com/ : accessed 20 Apr 2021)

• "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MS1P-HMN : accessed 9 May 2021), Annie L Hamm, Precinct 3 Pittsburgh city Ward 18, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 208, sheet 5A, family 93, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,361.
• "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MGHF-TBP : accessed 9 May 2021), Mary D Holmes, Pittsburgh Ward 10, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 406, sheet 15A, family 2, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1302; FHL microfilm 1,375,315.
• "United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MX9Z-858 : 3 February 2021), Mary H Strader, 1920.
• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XCCQ-ZRW : accessed 9 May 2021), Head nurse Helen Fisher, Pittsburgh (Districts 1-250), Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 151, sheet 14A, line 1, family 95, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 1973; FHL microfilm 2,341,707.
• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KQWC-7BS : 7 January 2021), Hettie M Porch, Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 69-229, sheet 61A, line 1, family 1, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 3658.

• "$715,000 In Charity" Lancaster Intelligencer (Lancaster, Pennsylvania) 20 May 1885, Wed Page 5 (https://www.newspapers.com/ : accessed 20 Apr 2021)
• "A PROTESTANT HOME FOR INCURABLES" New York Times, The (New York, New York) June 17, 1880, Page 2
• "Incurables Beat Despair Through 'Busy Bee Club'" The Pittsburgh Press (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) 22 Apr 1952, Tue • Page 14 (https://www.newspapers.com/ : accessed 20 Apr 2021)
• "Holmes House Will Close, Lawrenceville Jolted Again" The Pittsburgh Press (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) 01 Jun 1980, Sun Page 32 (https://www.newspapers.com/ : accessed 20 Apr 2021)