MOWER COUNTY GENEALOGY

 

People from Mower County that died
at the
Hastings State Hospital/Asylum
1903-1937

Hastings, Minnesota

Name

Date of Death

Sex

Age

Marital
Status

Nativity

From
County

Sent To

Gafferty, John

21 August 1903

M

61

Single

Ireland

Mower

Buried on Hospital Grounds

Johnson, Soren

14 April 1918

M

42

Single

Norway

Mower

Buried on Hospital Grounds

Ross, Frank

26 February 1928

M

55

Married

Germany

Mower

Buried on Hospital Grounds

Anderson, Christ

19 December 1918

M

31

Single

Minnesota

Mower

Unknown

Anderson, Martin

13 February 1930

M

56

Single

Minnesota

Mower

Adams, Minnesota

Bell, Stephen

6 September 1916

M

53

Married

Minnesota

Mower

LeRoy, Minnesota

Dalen, Peter

21 November 1917

M

47

Single

Norway

Mower

Unknown

Dee, David

28 June 1934

M

68

Single

Minnesota

Mower

Guardian Angels Cemetery

Hanson, Edward O.

6 January 1926

M

60

Single

Minnesota

Mower

Blooming Prairie, Minnesota

Krueger, Otto

26 May 1929

M

56

Single

Michigan

Mower

Cresco, Iowa

Larrabee, Fred

13 June 1926

M

54

Single

Minnesota

Mower

LeRoy, Minnesota

Nelson, Rasmus

18 December 1926

M

66

Widowed

Denmark

Mower

Blooming Prairie, Minnesota

Phillips, Geo. A

9 January 1937

M

56

Single

Minnesota

Mower

Austin, Minnesota

Shaw, Nels J

18 June 1914

M

56

Married

Norway

Mower

Adams, Minnesota

Torgerson, Ole

27 October 1919

M

28

Single

Minnesota

Mower

Austin, Minnesota

Tuff, Ole C.

22 August 1912

M

51

Single

United States

Mower

Grand Meadow, Minnesota

Vacura, Frank

26 June 1925

M

55

Married

Bohemia

Mower

Austin, Minnesota

Wolfe, John

13 January 1929

M

74

Married

Wisconsin

Mower

Austin, Minnesota

 

In a Hastings Area Tourism Bureau publication titled 'Hastings Heritage Map' there was a brief reference to the Hastings State Hospital. It read: 'The 1900 hospital included large brick buildings housing up to 900 patients. It was known as the Insane Asylum. On the complex's 460 acre farm, patients produced garden and dairy products for the hospital. In 1979 it became the Minnesota Veterans Home.' The buildings still exist today (2000).

Having a minimal medical background and some experience working in a nursing home setting I recognized several of the diagnosis as being related to some old age problems like Alzheimer's and senility. Perhaps known as 'insane' years ago, but at the present readily acceptable as something other than 'insane'.

Copyright © Debbie Boe 2000

Used with permission