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Family Service Association of Terre Haute
Dates: 1882-1973
Accession Number: 20090520
Donor: Tara Williams
Description: Eight document cases and one flat storage box;
includes several photographs

History

The Family Service Association of Terre Haute traces its formal organizational roots to 1882 when it was known as the Society for Organizing Charity. The organization is now known (Jan. 2010) as FSA Counseling & Behavioral Health.

The Family Service Association was "born" in 1862 when a Ladies' Aid Society was established for the relief of the families of men serving in the Union Army during the Civil War.

Charitable giving in Terre Haute operated in this informal fashion until 1882 when prominent Hauteans emulated the "Charity Movement" in Europe and the eastern United States and founded a Society for Organizing Charity (SOC). Citizens in Indianapolis had founded their own Society a few months earlier. The Terre Haute SOC's first officers included Mayor James Lyne, Superintendent of Schools William Wiley, Colonel Richard W. Thompson, Mrs. D. W. Minshall and several other prominent Hauteans.

Terre Haute's Society for Organizing Charity was led in its early years by Charles Henderson, pastor of the First Baptist Church. The SOC's constitution set out five goals:

Relief of all deserving cases of destitution;
Prevention of indiscriminate and duplicate giving;
Employing the destitute in useful work instead of providing them with outright financial aid;
Prevention of deception from those not truly in financial distress;
Reduction of vagrancy and pauperism and determination of their true causes

Terre Haute's Society for Organizing Charity employed the principles of "friendship" as their operational philosophy. Society volunteers were referred to as "friendly visitors" and a Friendly Inn was opened in 1883 at the northwest corner of Fourth and Walnut Streets in which to maintain offices and lodge transients. The "means test" for worthy applicants consisted of the Friendly Inn staff requiring applicants for shelter to chop a certain amount of lumber for the use of the Inn before the applicant could gain entrance.

The Friendly Inn was the first of several local charitable endeavors created by the Society for Organizing Charity and was in operation into the 1960s. In 1907, the Society established the Fresh Air Mission which provided youngsters with brief respites at outdoor camps. In 1912, the Society established the Tuberculosis Association which later became the Vigo County Tuberculosis Society. In 1917, the Society for Organizing Charity was a cofounder of the local American Red Cross Chapter. And in 1919, the Society organized the Welfare League which is now (2009) the Wabash Valley Community Foundation.

The Family Service Association also participated in the Health/Welfare Annual Fund Appeal and was a member of the Council of Social Agencies of Terre Haute.

The organization which formally started as the Society for Organizing Charity (1882-1935) is now known as FSA Counseling & Behavioral Health (est. 2001) but has operated under several names including the Family Welfare Society of Terre Haute (1935-1948), the Family Service Association of Terre Haute (1948-1993), and the Family Service Association of the Wabash Valley, Inc. (1993-2001).

Content and Scope of Collection

The collection includes constitutions, bylaws, annual and monthly reports, minutes, correspondence, financial statements, news clippings, photographs and bound publications.

The collection also contains materials from the Fresh Air Mission, the Health/Welfare Annual Fund Appeal, the Welfare League, the Community Council and the Council of Social Agencies of Terre Haute.

Note: This collection is referred to as the �Family Service Association of Terre Haute� because this was the name under which the organization was operating at the time that the latest item in the collection was created.

Document Case 1

Folder 1	Sixty Years of Family Service, 1882-1942	1942

	Family Service Association in Terre Haute, 1882-1957	1957

Folder 2	Family Welfare Society (history prepared by Albert A Faurot, Recording Secretary; originally submitted for publication in The Wabash Valley Remembers: A Chronicle but omitted when published according to Faurot)	ca. 1935

Folder 3	Board Members, 1882-1987	1987

Folder 4	Historical Events and Activities	1972

Folder 5	Constitution	1919

Folder 6	Annual Reports	1882, 1895, 1904

Folder 7	Annual Report	1913

Folder 8	Annual Report	1914

Folder 9	Annual Report	1915

Folder 10	Annual Report	1916

Folder 11	Minutes, Board of Directors	Feb. 1907- April 1910

Folder 12	Minutes, Board of Directors	April 1910- Jan. 1912

Folder 13	Minutes, Board of Directors	Jan. 1912- 1914

Folder 14	Minutes, Board of Directors	April 1913- Nov. 1914

Folder 15	Minutes, Board of Directors	Dec. 1914- Jan. 1916

Folder 16	Minutes, Board of Directors	Feb. 1916- Jan. 1917

Folder 17	Minutes, Board of Directors	Jan. 1917- April 1918

Folder 18	Minutes, Board of Directors	June 1918- Jan. 1920

Folder 19	Minutes, Board of Directors	Jan. 1921- April 1924

Folder 20	Minutes, Board of Directors	June 1924- Dec. 1928

Folder 21	Minutes, Board of Directors	Feb. 1929- Dec. 1931


Document Case 2

Folder 1	Minutes, Board of Directors	Jan. 1932- Feb. 1935

Folder 2	Minutes	Jan. 1935- Dec. 1936

Folder 3	Minutes	March 1937- Nov. 1938

Folder 4	Minutes	Jan. 1939- Dec. 1940

Folder 5	Minutes	Feb. 1941- March 1943

Folder 6	Minutes	April 1943- Oct. 1946

Folder 7	Minutes	Jan. 1947- June 1948

Folder 8	Minutes	June 1948- April 1950

Folder 9	Minutes	April 1950- Dec. 1950

Folder 10	Minutes	Jan. 1951- Dec. 1953

Folder 11	Minutes	Jan. 1954- June 1955

Folder 12	Minutes	June 1955- Dec. 1956

Folder 13	Minutes	Jan. 1957- Jan. 1958

Folder 14	Minutes	Jan. 1958- Feb. 1959

Folder 15	Minutes	March 1959- March 1960

Folder 16	Minutes	April 1960- Dec. 1961

Folder 17	Minutes	Jan. 1962- Dec. 1963


Document Case 3

Folder 1	Notes from Board minutes	1882-1885

Folder 2	Notes from Board minutes	1886-1892

Folder 3	Notes from Board minutes	1897-1906

Folder 4	Notes from Board minutes	1907-1913

Folder 5	Notes from Board minutes	1914-1916

Folder 6	Bills, receipts and checks	1886-1903

Folder 7	Financial statements	1926

Folder 8	Financial statements	1927

Folder 9	Financial statements	1928-1930

Folder 10	Financial statements	1931

Folder 11	Financial statements	1932

Folder 12	Financial statements	1936-1941

Folder 13	Financial statements	1942-1945

Folder 14	Financial statements	1946, 1947

Folder 15	Financial statements	1948

Folder 16	Financial statements	1949

Folder 17	Financial statements	1954

Folder 18	Correspondence--Letter of resignation of B. E. Lockwood, first executive secretary of the Society of Organizing Charity	1889

Folder 19	Correspondence--Wilbert Jeffreys case	1913

Folder 20	Correspondence	1916-1926

Folder 21	Correspondence	1946

Folder 22	Correspondence	1965

Folder 23	Correspondence	1967

Folder 24	Correspondence	1973

Folder 25	Brochures	n.d.

Folder 26	Brochures	n.d.

Speeches and radio scripts (Folders 27-41)

Folder 27	"What is organized charity?"	n.d.

Folder 28	"What is social work?"	n.d.

Folder 29	"Society for Organizing Charity"	n.d.

Folder 30	History of private and public relief agencies	ca. 1930s

Folder 31	History of social welfare/philosophy of social work	n.d.

Folder 32	"Vocational Aspects of Social Work in General and Family Social Work in Particular"	n.d.

Folder 33	Speech	1928

Folder 34	"What is social work?"--presentation to the Social Science Studies Club	1928

Folder 35	"Social Work"	ca. 1938

Folder 36	Family Welfare Society�presentation to county home economics teachers	Nov. 6, 1939

Folder 37	Family Welfare Society	March 7, 1940

Folder 38	Description of services available for military veterans	ca. 1945

Folder 39	FSA presentation on radio	Sept. 19, 1949

Folder 40	Public Health Nurses Association	Dec. 4, 1950

Folder 41	Script for radio presentation on FSA	1957


Document Case 4

Folder 1	Friendly Inn--Construction	1920-1921, 1927

Folder 2	Fresh Air Mission--Minutes	1941-1946

Folder 3	Fresh Air Mission--Minutes	1946-1949

Folder 4	Fresh Air Mission--Minutes	1949-1954

Folder 5	Fresh Air Mission--Application for property tax exemption	1964

Folder 6	Newspaper clippings--Society for Organizing Charity	n.d.; 1935

Folder 7	Newspaper clippings--Society for Organizing Charity	1921-1940

Folder 8	Newspaper clippings--Society for Organizing Charity/Family Welfare Society/Family Service Association	1930s-1950s

Folder 9	Newspaper clippings--Friendly Inn	1915-1933

Folder 10	Photographs	1920s-1970s

Folder 11	Photographs	1940s-1970s


Folder 12	Photographs--Fresh Air Mission	ca. 1950s?

Folder 13	Photographs--Fresh Air Mission	ca. 1950s?


Document Case 5

Folder 1	Health/Welfare Crusade	Sept. 1935

Folder 2	Health/Welfare Crusade	Sept. 1935

Folder 3	Health/Welfare Annual Fund Appeal	1936

Folder 4	Health/Welfare Annual Fund Appeal	1936

Folder 5	Health/Welfare Annual Fund Appeal	1937

Folder 6	Health/Welfare Annual Fund Appeal	1937

Folder 7	Health/Welfare Annual Fund Appeal	1938

Folder 8	Health/Welfare Annual Fund Appeal	1939

Folder 9	Health/Welfare Annual Fund Appeal	1939

Folder 10	Health/Welfare Annual Fund Appeal	1939

Folder 11	Health/Welfare Annual Fund Appeal	1939

Folder 12	Health/Welfare Annual Fund Appeal	1939

Folder 13	Health/Welfare Annual Fund Appeal	1940

Folder 14	Health/Welfare Annual Fund Appeal	1940


Document Case 6

Folder 1	Health/Welfare Annual Fund Appeal	1940

Folder 2	Health/Welfare Annual Fund Appeal	1940

Folder 3	Health/Welfare Annual Fund Appeal	1940

Folder 4	Health/Welfare Annual Fund Appeal	1941

Folder 5	Health/Welfare Annual Fund Appeal	1941

Folder 6	Health/Welfare Annual Fund Appeal	1941

Folder 7	Friendly Inn--Register (see also Document Case 8)	1885-1895

Loose	Fresh Air Mission--Account book	1907-1924


Document Case 7

Folder 1	Welfare League and Community Council-- Constitution and bylaws	1927

Council of Social Agencies of Terre Haute (Folders 2-10)

Folder 2	Constitution	1942

Folder 3	Bylaws	n.d.

Folder 4	Membership requirements	n.d.

Folder 5	Minutes	July 9, 1938

Folder 6	Minutes	1947-1949

Folder 7	Minutes	1949

Folder 8	Correspondence	1939-1949

Folder 9	Remarks of Dewey Annakin at first meeting of the Council of Social Agencies of Terre Haute	Nov. 1, 1938

Folder 10	Program for the prevention of delinquency in Terre Haute, Indiana	ca. 1945

Folder 11	Indiana State Conference on Social Work--History	n.d.

Folder 12	Board of State Charities--First report to the Indiana Legislature	March 1, 1889- Oct. 31,1890

Folder 13	Russell Sage Foundation: A History	1947

Folder 14	Indiana: A century of progress--a study of the development of public charities and correction, 1790-1915	1916

Loose	Echoes from the Trail (autobiography of Olis G. Jamison)	1973


Document Case 8

Loose	Friendly Inn intake register (records of those who resided at the Friendly Inn and the reason for inclusion)	Jan. 1896- April 1908

Loose	Friendly Inn intake register (records of those who resided at the Friendly Inn and the reason for inclusion)	Feb. 1903- March 1909


Flat Storage Box

	Scrapbook, Family Welfare Society of Terre Haute/ Family Service Association of Terre Haute	1940-1986

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