Allegheny County PA Archives History .....Complaint V. Edward Porter Kuhn For Commital To Reform Scool August 12, 1899
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Complaint made before W.A. Tomlinson, Justice of the Peace of Oakmont, 
Allegheny County, by D.J. Kuhn of Oakmont. father of Edward Porter Kuhn, a 
minor born March 23, 1882.  Uncontrollable; does not work steadily, jumps 
freight cars, tramping in the country & begging, thereby destroying his 
clothes.  Comes home dirty, and when he does work he purloins a portion of his 
wages.  When home he abuses his brothers and sisters and is very abusive and 
disrespectful to his parents.  
     Mary Alice Kuhn, mother of Edward, deposes exactly the same.

Additional Comments:
Notes written upon the boy's arrival at the Pennsylvania Reform School at
Morganza:
     Edward P. Kuhn, #5737, Division F.  Parents living at Oakmont, Allegheny 
Co., Pa.  Father, David Kuhn, an architect, now a cripple.  Sent here for 
running away from home, not working.
     Description: height, 5'6"; weight 113 pounds.  Dark hair, brown eyes, dark 
complexion, scar across bridge of nose.  One vaccine mark on left arm.
     Age 17 on Mar. 23, 1899; received Aug. 12, 1899
     Born Penna. of American parents
     Church: U.P.
     Father & mother not intemperate; parents own property
     1 older brother; 4 older & 2 younger sisters
     Can read & write
     Swears, lies, steals; is not intemperate, does not use tobacco; has not 
been arrested before

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