Allegheny County PA Archives History .....Complaint Vs. John Harris, Pittsburgh, For Commitment To Reform School May 6, 1897
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Complaint made before E.C. Neyley, Alderman of Pittsburgh, by Cornelia Fuqua of 
Pittsburgh, mother of John Harris.  My son John Harris was born in 
Charlottesville, Virginia, in Sept. 1888.  He has become incorrigible, will not 
stay at home, has been arrested time & again and is not in the Central Station, 
Pbh.  Signed by mark; 514 Wicklow St., E E Pittsburgh, Pa.
   James Fuqua deposes that he is the husband of Cornelia Fuqua.  Boy will not 
obey, etc.





Additional Comments:
Notes made at time of the boy's arrival at Pennsylvania Reform School, Morganza:
   John Harris, #5316, Division B.  Father dead.  Mother remarried to James 
Fuqua, a laborer at st(reet) carshed living at 514 Wicklow St., Pittsburgh, Pa.
   Sent here for running away from home, disobedience.
   Description: height, 4'7"; weight 65 pounds.  Dark negro features, very full 
lips, one vaccine mark left arm.
   Age 10 Sept. 1897; received May 2, 1897.  
   Born Va., of African parentage.  Baptist.  Stepfather intemperate.  Mother 
not intemperate.  Parents do not own property.  1 younger brother.  Can read 
and write.  Swears, lies.  Does not steal or use tobacco.  Is not intemperate.  
Has been arrested before.

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