Glenwood, Mills County

This Institution was established by an act of the Legislature, passed during the session of 1875-6.

It provides for the organization and support of an Institution at Glenwood, Mills County, Iowa, for the care and training of feeble-minded and idiotic children of the State.  Any children between the ages of  five and eighteen, residing in the State, are eligible to the benefits of the Institution, subject to the direction of the Board of Trustees.

The Institution is designed to care for two classes, viz: (1) Those whose mental deficiency is slight, but sufficient to prevent advancement in the common schools; and (2) Those who are not capable of much or any improvement, but whose care here relieves an oppressive burden from many homes of the State.

For the former a thorough course of training and instruction is provided, based upon the most advanced ideas of the subject.

A farm of 160 acres is under cultivation, and useful, pleasant and profitable occupation is thus afforded a large number of older boys.  There is also a beautiful grove and playgrounds of about twenty acres.  This youngest of the State's charities, is already a recognized necessity, and its abundant success is attested by its over crowded condition and great number of almost impossible applications for admission.

The Trustees are appointed every six years by the General Assembly.

    TRUSTEES   

President, Fred O'Donnell, Dubuque

Treasurer, E. R. S. Woodrow, Glenwood,  W. H. Hall, Osceola

Secretary, Dr. F. M. Powell, Glenwood.

RESIDENT OFFICERS

F.M. Powell, M.D., Superintendent

 A.C. Rogers, M.D., Clerk

 Mrs. F.M. Powell, Matron

 Miss Emma Brown, Assistant Matron

 Miss Mattie McClean, Bookkeeper

TEACHERS

Mrs. Dora Moore

Miss Laura Baker

Mrs. Phoebe Rogers

 Miss Ella Frazee

 Miss Anna Townsend.

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~ source:  Medical and Surgical Directory of Iowa 1883 and 1884 by Charles H. Lothrop, M.D.1883
~ Contributed by and transcribed by Roseanna Zehner