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The William George Agency for Children's Services (formerly the George Junior Republic) is a non-profit residential treatment center for adolescent boys and girls in Freeville, New York, United States.
The original George Junior Republic was founded in Freeville, New York, in 1895 as a self-governing colony requiring payment in labor for all that they received. "The George Junior Republic was run like a small village where the residents where engaged in self-supporting enterprizes and administered their own laws."
The Village of Freeville was incorporated in 1887. George Junior Republic, a youth center, originally called the Freeville Junior Republic, was founded just outside of the village in 1895; the name was changed in 1909.
Two former Pennsylvania judges who orchestrated a scheme to send children to for-profit jails in exchange for kickbacks have been ordered to pay damages to nearly 300 people.
George Junior Republic, Freeville: $20,000; and the; Women's Educational and Industrial Union of Auburn: $25,000 plus the building that Elizabeth Wright Osborne built for the Auburn Women's Union at a cost of $200,000. Her memorial service was held in Auburn on October 15, 1911.
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Kitchelt née Cross was born on December 17, 1874, in Rochester, New York. [1] She graduated from Wells College in 1897. [2]Kitchelt began her career in social work by working at the George Junior Republic, in Freeville, New York.