At the risk of getting a caution from the listowner for a non-genealogy discussion, let me throw in both a little history and a warning not to judge the actions of our forebears through the prism of today's lights. Up until the Progressive movement of the early 20th century, most "developmentally disabled" (as the PC term is today) were cared for by their families. With that movement came "Social Darwinism", also called the "science" - and I use the term loosely - of eugenics. (The whole idea came from E.R. Johnstone's "The Jukes and the Kallikaks", which purported to trace two families infamous for their defective children - a study later proved to be 95% fiction.) By the way, Hitler borrowed Johnstone's idea and simply took it one step further. Johnstone got a State School named after him. The idea was that mental retardation came from defective genes, and the only way to weed out that population humanely was to prevent them from reproducing. Thus what is now the Vineland Developmental Center was split into two separate institutions, the females continuing at Vineland and the males going off to colonize a place in the Burlington County pines, originally (and sometimes even today) referred to as "The Colony". Anyone with a great interest can read "The Story of Four Mile Colony" written, I believe, in the 40s - it is horrifying in its overt discrimination against those (read Pineys) whose lives and aspirations did not conform to middle class notions of propriety. Please remember that in those dark ages a mentally retarded child became to be regarded as a shame on the family, and physicians would advise the parents to institutionalize the child and to forget he ever existed. Today we see institutionalization as a last resort, but in those days there were no other choices - no school, no day training, no Occupational Training, no caseworkers, nothing. OK, off my soapbox.