This is the bill that I would have written: “This bill is important and necessary in order to restore the dignity and personhood of the thousands of people who were incarcerated and died at former New York State Insane Asylums, (later renamed State Hospitals), Feeble-Minded and Epileptic Custodial Institutions. It is the abandoned Willard Asylum For The Chronic Insane, a sprawling facility that once housed the most vulnerable members of society: mental health patients. 1, For Men-Wayne E. Morrison, Sr. 1978, 13-A Group Of Physicians & Attendants, Detached Building No. Another busy industry was the broom shop which made brooms by the thousands as well as brushes, baskets, crates, doormats and floor polishers. By 1940, the value of milk produced was $44,579.

Employees lived on the asylum property and were supplied with room and board in addition to very low wages.

As you know, at the very end, there were two burials of lab specimens (including one fetus). What follows are Mr. Morrison’s words: “Year after year since 1869, the Willard Asylum has proved an incalculable blessing to thousands of the unfortunate of humanity in the State of New York – a refuge for the chronic insane and upon lands partially in the Towns of Ovid and Romulus, Seneca County, it was the first such institution established in the nation and has been the exemplar from which other states have formed like asylums. Government Hospital for the Insane Washington D.C. Kings Park: Stories from an American Mental Institution, Monroe County Public Administrator's Office, Newark Custodial Asylum for Feeble-Minded Women, NY State Hospital & Custodial Institution Cemeteries, Rome Custodial Asylum for the Feeble-Minded, Rome State Custodial Institution For Feeble-Minded Children, Scientific Charity Movement & Charity Organization Societies, St. Lawrence State Hospital Preservation Society, Syracuse State Institution for Feeble-Minded Children, The Central Islip Cemetery Restoration Project, The Commissioners of the Department of Public Charities and Correction, The Inmates Of Willard 1870 to 1900 / A Genealogy Resource, The Pathological Institute of The New York State Hospitals, THE WILLARD ASYLUM AND PROVISION FOR THE INSANE, Two Years and Three Months in the New York State Lunatic Asylum at Utica: Together with the Outlines of Twenty Years' Peregrinations in Syracuse, Windows Into The Past-Thousands of Glass Photo Negatives Discovered in Binghamton’s Historic Asylum, Winslow’s Journal of Psychological Medicine. His duties at Willard were many and important. A look at the figures from year to year is most instructive. During that time he was totally responsible for all purchasing as well as overseeing the farm and maintenance work. The slabs from the mill were made into bushel crates for potatoes and other vegetables. For over 90 years the herd fully supplied the Institutional needs for milk. About Dr. Robert E. Doran, Jr. in his own words: “INTRODUCTION: The author of this little history of Willard lived there as a little boy when my father was First Assistant physician.

The first patient was named Mary Rote. As it turns out, the hospital staff had hidden away their belongings when no loved ones came to claim their possessions. Much corn was raised for ensilage, and we read from time to time of the need for more silos.
HAYTS CORNERS. There are at least three references to infants being buried. The closing of the Willard Asylum was not the end of the story, however. Lime was made and stone quarried.

In March 1875 a 71-year-old woman was buried, with a place of birth being listed as “Africa.” I note that since in some Upstate cemeteries separate sections were made for African-Americans…never the case at Willard. Chairs were caned and furniture repaired. Just a couple other items from my notes from the cemetery ledgers. Considerable beef was produced. An implication of the removal to the new cemetery is that the old one had grave markers.

It would eventually become a state-run drug rehabilitation center for prisoners. 1 – Pictorial Album Of The Willard Asylum 1869 – 1886. Four years later, the pigs were moved east of the railroad cut, far enough away not to be a nuisance. As a result, the Willard Suitcase Project was born to compile and archive information about the owner of each suitcase that was sadly left behind. Dunning Leaving Willard Landing-Wayne E. Morrison, Sr. 1978, 27-A View At Willard Landing-Wayne E. Morrison, Sr. 1978, 28-A Group Of The Asylum Staff-Wayne E. Morrison, Sr. 1978, 29-The Onondaga At Willard Landing-Wayne E. Morrison, Sr. 1978, 30-Cap’t & Mrs. Anson Wheeler-Wayne E. Morrison, Sr. 1978, Many months ago, Mr. Craig Williams, Curator of History at the New York State Museum at Albany, sent me copies of two Willard State Hospital Maps from 1917: Willard West and East. There must have been a period in the 1980s when people were being buried at both cemeteries.

This institution was designed for the ‘acutely ill’, those who were deemed to have short term needs.

There may be more. Thanks very largely to the farm, the patients were well cared for.

In the inside cover of Willard’s first burial ledger, there is the handwritten note stating – “January 17th, 1876 – Trustees of Union Cemetery at Ovid, N.Y. made deed of lot 161 to Willard Asylum for the Insane. To a lesser extent, this was true of cheese. NYS LandmarksPatients were kept until administrators decided they could leave — and many patients were kept until their deaths. The Branch, Barns, &c., From The Simpson House – Wayne E. Morrison, Sr. 1978. Added together, I get 5,884. In the third cemetery ledger, in November 1898, there is the note of “Bones taken from new Branch” were put at the west end of Form 2. From the very start, apples had been a good crop and supplied the cider and all the vinegar for the hospital. 24-The Branch From The West-Wayne E. Morrison, Sr. 1978, 25-The Branch During Alterations-Wayne E. Morrison, Sr. 1978, 26-Excavating For The Addition To The Branch-Wayne E. Morrison, Sr. 1978, 31-Physician, Apothecary & Attendants, The Branch-Wayne E. Morrison, Sr. 1978, 32-The Branch From The East-Wayne E. Morrison, Sr. 1978, 33-The Branch From The North-Wayne E. Morrison, Sr. 1978, 34-A Hall In The Branch-Wayne E. Morrison, Sr. 1978, 35-A View From The Branch-Wayne E. Morrison, Sr. 1978, 36-Horace G. Hopkins, M.D.

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