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Note: Warren State Hospital is in North Warren, PA which is in Conewango Township located in Warren County, PA
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- 1700's
- 1797
- 1798
- Michael McKinney Settles in Conewango Township
- 1800's
- 1800
- Robert Falconer purchases farm land in Conewango township in Warren County, PA
- 1822
- ”Mrs. Winter resided at what is now North Warren, on a part of the farm now occupied by the asylum for the insane” (Schenck 370)
- 1867
- January 15, 1867
- John W. Geary takes office as Governor of Pennsylvania (Wikipedia)
- 1869
- Board of Public Charities created to inspect all charitable and correction institutions in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
- 1873
- January 21, 1873
- Governor John W. Geary leaves office (Wikipedia)(NNDB)
- John F. Hartranft takes office as Governor of Pennsylvania (Wikipedia) (NNDB)
- August 14, 1873
- P.L. 333 passes Authorizing the Governor of Pennsylvania to form a commission for finding and purchasing land for an state hospital in northwestern PA (Care of the Insane vol 3, 470)
- Members appointed to the Commission were
- 1874
- May 6, 1874
- PL 117 “made appropriation for the erection of the hospital and therein empowered the commissioners to reject all bids for construction "if, in the opinion of the commissioners, the bids are higher than they can otherwise procure the material or do the work.”” (Care of the Insane vol. 3, 470)
- September 10, 1874
- 1876
- Warren County Courthouse erected
- June 25, 1876
- 1879
- January 21, 1879
- Gov. John F Hartranft leaves office (NNDB)
- Governor Henry Martyn Hoyt enters office (NNDB)
- Dr. David Doorington Richardson appointed as Superintendent at The State Hospital for the Insane at Warren, PA where he served until July 1881
- 1880
- October 5, 1880
- December 5, 1880
- The State Hospital for the Insane at Warren, PA admits first patient
- 1881
- May 11 to May 13, 1881
- State medical society opposes female superintendent
- June 24, 1881
- Dr. Curwen is elected as Physician and Superintendent of the Warren State Hospital for the Insane until July 15, 1900
- July 1881
- Dr. David Doorington Richardson leaves Warren State Hospital
- August 1, 1881
- 1883
- January 16, 1883
- Governor Henry Martyn Hoyt leaves office (NNDB)
- 1884
- Main building supplied with natural gas for heating
- Committee on Lunacy works to remove the insane from County Almshouses
- 1885
- number of patients exceeds capacity of hospital trustees make an appeal for a suitable addition
- 1888
- census reaches 686 patients
- 1889
- Census reaches 707 patients
- unknown Building erected containing a Museum, reading room, and gymnasium with Turkish bath (92 Mylin)
- 1900's
- 1900
- July 15, 1900
- Dr. Curwen resigns from Warren State Hospital
- Dr. Morris Guth appointed as Superintendent at Warren State Hospital
- 1903
- 1907
- April 6, 1907
- Warren state has 50 bed capacity for the treatment of Tuberculosis
- Dept. of Health orders WSH to build a sewage system
- 1909
- Clifford W. Beers (Wikipedia) forms the National Committee for Mental Hygiene which would later be called Mental Health America
- 1910
- Dr. Morris Guth Resigns from WSH
- 1912
- Funding granted for improvements ate WSH
- 1914
- 1918
- 1919
- January-16 prohibition begins
- 1920
- The State Hospital for the Insane at Warren PA name is renamed to Warren State Hospital.
- 1921 ? or 1922 ?
- Magnesium Sulfate is tried as a sedative for patients at Warren State Hospital
- 1922
- April Dr. Henry W. Mitchell, Appointed Superintendent, Warren State Hospital, Warren, PA
- 1922-1923 Elected as President of the American Psychiatric Association
- 1923
- Board of Public Charities abolished and it's charities merged with the Department of Welfare in 1923
- 1929
- 1945
- October 24, 1945 United Nations (UN) established
- 1946
- 1947
- March 2, 1947
- “blaze destroys big barn”
- According to a series of articles in the Warren Times-Mirror a fire destroyed a large square “U” shaped cow barn 1 employee died of injuries caused by a beam falling on him, a second employee was seriously injured by the same beam, and a patient died in the fire when the upper floor he was on collapsed. The Warren Public Library has a copy of the articles in the reference room.
- 1950
- June 27, 1950 Truman orders US forces to Korea (History channel web site this day in history)
- 1954
- 2000's
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