Reuben was born in 1884. He is the son of Henry Chaffee and Diantha Bosworth.
Between 1900[1] and 1910 Reuben moves from his fathers home into the Norwich Hospital for the insane and is listed as a patient.
Source Citation: Year: 1910; Census Place: Preston, New London, Connecticut; Roll: T624_142; Page: 12A; Enumeration District: 0543; FHL microfilm: 1374155. Source Information: Ancestry.com. 1910 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.[2]
in 1920 he is listed int he Norwich State Hospital as an "inmate" And he continues to live there through the 1930 census.[3] At this time his brother Herbert is also living there.[4]
Source Citation: Year: 1920; Census Place: Preston, New London, Connecticut; Roll: T625_196; Page: 3B; Enumeration District: 292; Image: 639. Source Information: Ancestry.com. 1920 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.
Source Information: Ancestry.com. 1930 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2002. Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1930. T626, 2,667 rolls.
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