Good question. In the 1880 census, there is a heading at the top of the first page that has all of the inmates that says reform school and in the column that describes the relationship of the person it says prisoner. Those people who were teachers or support personell are listed as such. My hope is that there are records which would then help me find court records and possibly newspaper articles about this person. Bob Drennan SusanCL49@aol.com wrote: > Looking at the ages on the reform school, many were quite young, 10 or so > throught about 16. Was it a reform school as we think of one now, or for > children without parents? > > ============================== > Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp